Re: [Tlf-devel] Improved keyboard handling

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2016 05 Jan 10:39 -0600, Thomas Beierlein wrote:

> Here just a test with your program for the PgUp and PgDn on three
> terminals:
> 
> 
>             xfce terminal   xterm       rxvt
> Ctrl-PgUp       --         550 kPRV5   530 kPRV5
> Ctrl-PgDn       --         545 kNXT5   528 kNXT5
> Alt-PgUp    548 kPRV3      548 kPRV5   338 KEY_NPAGE
> Alt-PgDn    543 kNXT3      543 kNXT5   339 KEY_PPAGE

Ahh, RXVT, I recall why I dumped it years ago.  ;-)

> By the way there is a very easy way to check the plain keycodes from a
> terminal. Just type
> 
> $ cat<enter>
> 
> and then you will get all key sequences for any key you press (minus
> the ones that your terminal strips out - e.g. for Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn in
> xfce terminal).

I was never very good at interpreting line noise.  ;-)

^[[5;5~^[[6;5~^C

That's Ctl-PgUp Ctl-PgDn Ctl-C.

Which is why discovering 'showkey -a' was so helpful to me:

^[[5;5~          27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         53 0065 0x35
         59 0073 0x3b
         53 0065 0x35
        126 0176 0x7e
^[[6;5~          27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         54 0066 0x36
         59 0073 0x3b
         53 0065 0x35
        126 0176 0x7e
                                                     
The numeric values are very easy to test in C code and the same
character representation is given.

I also have Qterm installed and it seems to follow the other desktop
terminals for key codes.  So far Gnome Terminal as found in Debian
Jessie may be my choice of terminal since the shortcuts can be easily
disabled.  Now if I can convince it to start on X Display 1 instead of 0
I'll be happy.

73, Nate

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