| Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? [message #178763 is a reply to message #178760] |
Mon, 30 July 2012 11:08   |
crankypuss
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On 07/29/2012 07:13 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 7/29/2012 5:54 AM, crankypuss wrote:
>> On 07/28/2012 07:21 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> On 7/28/2012 7:50 AM, crankypuss wrote:
>>>> > 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:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> On Friday, July 27, 2012 6:42:09 AM UTC-4, crankypuss wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>> Using the C interface the incantation is "keypad(stdscr,
>>>> >>>>> TRUE)"
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>> What is the equivalent using the PHP interface to ncurses?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>> Pressing F1 just brings up gnome help (running in xterm under
>>>> >>>>> ubuntu 11.10).
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> that sounds as if you're using one of the vte-based hacks such as
>>>> >>>> gnome-terminal,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> which hijack some keys - have to fix that by undoing the item in
>>>> >>>> their respective
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> setup dialogs.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I'm using "xterm" and also on a cli (non-GUI) login... terminal
>>>> >>> type is
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> either "xterm" or "linux". Less stuff grabbed as Linux console.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Any additional pointers/keywords I can use to find out more about
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> "undoing the item"?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 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...).
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > 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.
>>>>
>>>> Try a Linux newsgroup.
>>>
>>> Quite bored of crankys posts, so I hope he will not.
>>
>> That goes both ways.
>>
>>> I suggest he would
>>> read documentation for once, if he had done that he may have read the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> Quoted from the ncurses_programming_howto:
>>
>> You quote the C-language interface documentation. Take a look at the
>> close-to-nonexistent documentation for the PHP interface sometime.
>>
>>> Normally the terminal driver buffers the characters a user types until a
>>> new line or carriage return is encountered. But most programs require
>>> that the characters be available as soon as the user types them. The
>>> above two functions are used to disable line buffering. The difference
>>> between these two functions is in the way control characters like
>>> suspend (CTRL-Z), interrupt and quit (CTRL-C) are passed to the program.
>>> In the raw() mode these characters are directly passed to the program
>>> without generating a signal. In the cbreak() mode these control
>>> characters are interpreted as any other character by the terminal
>>> driver.
>>
>> The code is running in cbreak() mode.
>>
>>> I guess his program is waiting for a return which you don't get when you
>>> just press a function key.
>>>
>>> As he is a gnome2 fan boy,
>>
>> Jump to fewer conclusions. If I were a gnome2 fanboy I'd be using
>> something like GTK+
>>
>>> he may need to disable the hot key F1 (if
>>> it's possible in gnome2, as mr Havoc was so kind and thought the less
>>> configuration options the less confused would the users be, so you can't
>>> do half of the stuff you could do in Miguel de Icaza's Gnome).
>>
>> Indeed, in the Linux newsgroups people "like you" don't even know "if
>> it's possible in gnome2".
>
> People know better than in a PHP newsgroup.
>
> How many correct answers have you gotten so far?
>
> But then we've been this route before, and you've been too lazy to try
> to find an appropriate newsgroup then, either.
I'm all ears Jerry, what is the most appropriate newsgroup of questions
about the PHP interface to ncurses?
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