Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? [message #178770 is a reply to message #178769] |
Tue, 31 July 2012 13:03 |
Peter H. Coffin
Messages: 245 Registered: September 2010
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:43:59 -0600, crankypuss wrote:
> It seems clear at this point that layers running "below" ncurses are
> limiting its usefulness by taking over certain keys for their cutsie
> menus and so forth. I had hoped that there was some even-lower-level
> Linux system facility that nurses could use to get some control back but
> apparently not, apparently I'll need to go on some quest to find out who
> the heck "owns" the terminal and see how things can be dealt with more
> usefully.
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> I might need to entirely abandon ncurses as useless for my purposes and
> work through the fugliness of html since at least browsers serve up a
> level of cross-system consistency. But I really don't want to give up
> the key-by-key responsiveness that ncurses in cbreak mode provides, and
> I really don't want to deal with the security issues of having a local
> apache server involved in a lower-level utility's interface.
Kinda makes one miss the days when Runlevel 3 MEANT something, doesn't
it?
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to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my
weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
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