Re: under ncurses, mouse events come as escape codes

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Adam H. Peterson wrote:

> I apologize if this is off-topic for this group.  I'm having difficulty 
> finding a forum to ask help in using ncurses, so here goes....
>
> I'm having difficulty reading mouse events under NCurses.  Instead of 
> receiving KEY_MOUSE from getch(), I'm getting escape codes.  For example, 
> this program:
...

> Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

perhaps $TERM isn't set properly (even though gnome-terminal hardcodes
"xterm" rather than "gnome" ;-).  ncurses is looking for "xterm" embedded
in the $TERM name, or kmous matching xterm's string in the corresponding
terminfo description.

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