Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Mon Feb 1 11:41:23 UTC 2010


On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote:

> I love the ability to customize keybindings in 4.7. However, I've noticed
> some keys cannot be bound because they aren't recognized properly by
> Midnight Commander. When you hit an unrecognized sequence, mc will simply
> skip the escape sequence up to a point and print the rest of it.
>
> I'm using Konsole, set to the xterm (XFree 4.x.x) keyboard, and $TERM is
> xterm. These are the key combinations that produce escape sequences but
> aren't recognized by mc. Everything else either works, or doesn't produce a

konsole doesn't send escape sequences that match xterm.
Use "infocmp konsole xterm" to see this.

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