[yocto] matchbox-terminal and function keys

[Burton, Ross]

On 27 March 2014 05:50, Stuart Longland <stuartl at vrt.com.au> wrote:
> The terminal reports itself as TERM=xterm.  When I do a `cat`, I observe
> that matchbox-terminal is reporting F1-F5 using VT100 terminal
> sequences, but F6-F10 using VT220 sequences.  If I set TERM=vt100, I get
> F1-F5 working, but unfortunately, I need F10 as well.
>
> So the terminal that matchbox-terminal emulates is neither a VT100 nor a
> VT220 (or the superset it claims to be: xterm), but a confused mix of
> the two.

Can you paste the output of cat to confirm the values you're seeing?
The xterm guide says VT100 for F1-F4 (as VT100 doesn't define F5
onwards) and VT220 for F5-F10 and that's what I'm seeing when I
attempt this (F10 specifically being ^[[21~).

Ross