Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote:

> 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.

In Debian, that (and gnome, etc), are in ncurses-term

/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-vt100
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-16color
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-linux
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-vt420pc
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-xf4x
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-base
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-solaris
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-xf3x

The often-presented argument that installing ncurses-term involves a large 
amount of diskspace loses effect when compared to a "minimal" install of 
KDE or GNOME (several hundred megabytes).

>
> 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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