| Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? [message #178754 is a reply to message #178753] |
Sat, 28 July 2012 11:50   |
crankypuss
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On 07/28/2012 05:45 AM, dickey(at)his(dot)com wrote:
> On Friday, July 27, 2012 12:29:53 PM UTC-4, crankypuss wrote:
>> On 07/27/2012 05:00 AM, dickey(at)his(dot)com wrote:
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>>> On Friday, July 27, 2012 6:42:09 AM UTC-4, crankypuss wrote:
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>>>> Using the C interface the incantation is "keypad(stdscr, TRUE)"
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>>>> What is the equivalent using the PHP interface to ncurses?
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>>>> Pressing F1 just brings up gnome help (running in xterm under ubuntu 11.10).
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>>> that sounds as if you're using one of the vte-based hacks such as gnome-terminal,
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>>> which hijack some keys - have to fix that by undoing the item in their respective
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>>> setup dialogs.
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>> I'm using "xterm" and also on a cli (non-GUI) login... terminal type is
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>> either "xterm" or "linux". Less stuff grabbed as Linux console.
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>> Any additional pointers/keywords I can use to find out more about
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>> "undoing the item"?
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> On a non-GUI login, I wouldn't expect a help-menu (puzzled there). For xterm in a desktop, I suppose it's possible for the window-manager to have F1 bound (Mac OS X's settings do this with some of the function keys, though I've disabled most of those...).
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On the non-GUI login the F1 key is readily available.
Other keys, like ctl-C and ctl-alt-D are firmly bound.
Can you offer any information about how to modify this on Linux? I'm
relatively new to Linux and don't know where that is controlled.
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