Re: matchbox-terminal and function keys

[Stuart Longland <stuartl@vrt.com.au>]

On 28/03/14 05:57, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> On 27/03/14 22:27, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> Can you paste the output of cat to confirm the values you're seeing?
>> The xterm guide says VT100 for F1-F4 (as VT100 doesn't define F5
>> onwards) and VT220 for F5-F10 and that's what I'm seeing when I
>> attempt this (F10 specifically being ^[[21~).
> 
> Well, evidently the ncurses devs didn't get that memo as F1-F5 aren't
> recognised when TERM=xterm.  I understood xterm was a superset of vt220.
> 
> I'll do a `cat` to a file and post the contents when I get in.  I'm just
> confused as to why ncurses applications don't seem to recognise F1-F5.

Okay, I've done a `cat` of the respective keys:
> root@xg100:~# hexdump -C /tmp/fn 
> 00000000  1b 4f 50 1b 4f 51 1b 4f  52 1b 4f 53 1b 5b 31 35  |.OP.OQ.OR.OS.[15|
> 00000010  7e 1b 5b 31 37 7e 1b 5b  31 38 7e 1b 5b 31 39 7e  |~.[17~.[18~.[19~|
> 00000020  1b 5b 32 30 7e 1b 5b 32  31 7e 0a                 |.[20~.[21~.|

So it indeed is sending those key commands.  I've discovered that if I
set TERM=xterm-xfree86, things work so evidently the ncurses here has
something funny with its 'xterm' terminfo entry.

Is there a way to override the terminal type set by matchbox-terminal?

Regards,
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