Re: Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

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 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.
> >
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