site/wiki/source/faq.md

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title: faq
author: ford (updated by deepend)
category: tilde.club
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Looking to join? We can\'t wait to meet you!
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Sign up on our main page [https://tilde.club/signup](https://tilde.club/signup)!

[Several alternate sites have sprouted
up](http://tilde.club/%7Epfhawkins/othertildes.html)

How did this accidentally awesome thing get started?
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[Paul wrote an explanation on
Medium](https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf)
and you can follow along with his thinking [on his tilde
blog](http://tilde.club/~ford/).

I\'m on Tilde, now what?
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Tilde has a great community culture and we\'re trying hard to keep it
that way. We\'re working on some netiquette outlines for people who are
new to all of this. In the meantime\...

-   DON\'T HACK THE GIBSON.
-   no drama. be respectful. have fun. we\'re all trying, and we\'re all
    in this together :)

Got it, don\'t be a jerk. But how do I, like, do things?
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Here are some good places to start

-   [the unofficial official tilde
    primer](http://tilde.club/~anthonydpaul/primer.html)
-   [some more quick
    tips](http://tilde.club/~pfhawkins/tipsntricks.html)
-   [how do I usenet in
    tilde.club](http://tilde.club/wiki/usenet-news.html)?
-   [help me understand \'screen\'](http://tilde.club/~jonathan/screen/)

Who are all these folks and what are they up to?
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-   [tell me some lore](http://tilde.club/~joeld/tildelore.html)?
-   [who is online right
    now](http://tilde.club/~whitneymcn/whoville.shtml)?
-   [who updated their websites
    recently](http://tilde.club/tilde.24h.php)?
-   [can you give me a blogroll](http://tilde.club/~_/)?

My function keys don't work in byobu! (using Windows PuTTY)
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**TL;DR**

Change your Terminal->Keyboard->"The Function keys and keypad" setting to "XTerm R6".

**Details**

I am using PuTTY 0.73 Windows 11, and could not get byobu hotkeys to work. Instead of creating or changing windows with F2, F3, and F4, the byobu command line would display a ~ every time I hit a a function key. The solution was to change my PuTTY settings for "XTerm R6" emulation. Now the Function keys work great, including F8! Note there are other articles out there that suggest using "VT100+" instead of "XTerm R6". Althought VT100+ helped out F2, F3, and F4, it *did not help F8* and some of the higher keys--that is where "XTerm R6" solved the rest.

**References**

-   [Function Key Fix at codeyarns.com](https://codeyarns.com/tech/2013-01-21-byobu-function-keys-do-not-work-in-putty.html)
-   [Byobu Keybindings Cheat Sheet at cheatography.com](https://cheatography.com/mikemikk/cheat-sheets/byobu-keybindings/))

Other links
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-   [Github](https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club)
-   [Webring](http://tilde.club/~harper/link.html?action=join)
-   [TildeClub Badge](http://tilde.club/~zarate/badge.html)
-   [TildeRadio](https://tilderadio.org/)

How do you pronounce \"tilde\"?
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Tilde the word is pronounced TIL-duh. Tilde the community is pronounced
TIL-dee.

We can\'t wait to meet you. Seriously.

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