Solaris tricks
Page containing various magical things that I've learned about opensolaris in my quest to get it working as I want it.
I use x2x to send keyboard input to my opensolaris box. It's an Ultra 80 with a Sun Type 4 keyboard. However, the machine I x2x from is a PC with an IBM Type-M keyboard. By default, any shortcuts using the alt key don't work. However, if on the PC you run the following command:
xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"
It should fix the issues with shortcuts using alt. This works better than using xmodmap on the sun machine. I'm not sure why but I'm not gonna argue.
Using the xterm-color terminfo file
The xterm that comes with solaris, like so many of the bundled applications, sucks. I've installed a better version from pkgsrc. To get solaris to find the terminfo file for xterm-color I've added the following to my ~/.zshrclocal (a file I use for per-machine shell configuration/overrides):
export TERMINFO=/usr/pkg/share/lib/terminfo
if [ $TERM = xterm ]; then export TERM=xterm-color fi