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Arrow keys don't work in htop on OS X in Terminal

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Mar 15, 20264595 views
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Not sure when it happened, or what I did (if anything), but my arrow keys don't work in htop anymore to scroll around. They used to though. You should be able to press up and down to scroll up and down the process list, but they don't work. Some keys tend to be the equivalent of 'go back' or someth…

Error Output

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Fix for: Arrow keys don't work in htop on OS X in Terminal

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Addendum: Apparently ncurses in 10.6.3 is broken An answer on SO links to a blog entry that describes some other investigations into the problem. One reported workaround is to copy the ncurses library from 10.6.2, but this may have unintended side e…

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