[yocto] matchbox-terminal and function keys

Stuart Longland stuartl at vrt.com.au
Thu Mar 27 12:57:14 PDT 2014


Hi Ross,
On 27/03/14 22:27, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 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~).

Well, evidently the ncurses devs didn't get that memo as F1-F5 aren't
recognised when TERM=xterm.  I understood xterm was a superset of vt220.

I'll do a `cat` to a file and post the contents when I get in.  I'm just
confused as to why ncurses applications don't seem to recognise F1-F5.

Regards,
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