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Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key?

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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@his.com wrote:
>>>> On Friday, July 27, 2012 12:29:53 PM UTC-4, crankypuss wrote:
>>>>> On 07/27/2012 05:00 AM, dickey@his.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".

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ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-27 04:42 -0600
  Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? dickey@his.com - 2012-07-27 04:00 -0700
    Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-27 10:29 -0600
      Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? dickey@his.com - 2012-07-28 04:45 -0700
        Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-28 05:50 -0600
          Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-28 08:39 -0400
            Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-28 15:21 +0200
              Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-28 10:15 -0400
              Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-29 03:54 -0600
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-29 13:31 +0200
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-30 05:07 -0600
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-29 21:13 -0400
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-30 05:08 -0600
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-07-30 07:09 -0500
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-30 10:39 -0400
          Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2012-07-30 18:53 +0000
            Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-31 04:43 -0600
              Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-07-31 08:03 -0500
      Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-07-31 22:08 -0400
        Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-08-01 02:43 -0600
          Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-08-01 07:34 -0400

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