Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm
Miguel Pérez
wiseman1024 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 12:13:43 UTC 2010
Interesting, I'm using Konsole from KDE 3.5 (KDE 3.5.10, Qt 3.3.8b, Konsole
1.6.6) which doesn't have a "konsole" map nor my terminfo database (which
came in the Ubuntu package ncurses-base 5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2) has an entry
for konsole.
2010/2/1 Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com>
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
> ...of course that's assuming that mc relies on the terminal description
> (I seem to recall some discussion where it's using separate configuration
> information).
>
> Assuming that it's actually using the terminal description, e.g., from
> ncurses, then mismatches would be due to (a) not using TERM=konsole, and (b)
> futher mismatches might be due to differences between the current konsole
> application and the ncurses description.
>
> A quick check (using tack and TERM=konsole for konsole 2.3.2) shows no
> issues.
>
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey
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