Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!eagle.wesleyan.edu!flinton From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: help with X386? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.210155.41901@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 02:01:55 GMT References: <16183.2809bec1@levels.sait.edu.au> Organization: Wesleyan University Lines: 35 In article <16183.2809bec1@levels.sait.edu.au>, mareb@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > > ... VT100 function keys. xterm seems to send some quite odd strings: > > F1 ESC[11~ > F2 ESC[12~ > > I have not been able to discover how or why this happens. > For what it's worth, DEC's own keyboards (well, their VT220 KB's in VT100 mode) send as follows for the keys labeled by DEC as : ESC [ 1 7 ~ F6 ESC [ 1 8 ~ F7 ESC [ 1 9 ~ F8 ESC [ 2 0 ~ F9 ESC [ 2 1 ~ F10 ESC F11 (ESC) BS F12 (BS) LF F13 (LF) ESC [ 2 6 ~ F14 ESC [ 2 8 ~ F15 (Help) ESC [ 2 9 ~ F16 (Do) ESC [ 3 1 ~ F17 ESC [ 3 2 ~ F18 ESC [ 3 3 ~ F19 ESC [ 3 4 ~ F20 The only ESC [ 1 2 commands I can find are the SRM (Send-Receive Mode) commands ESC [ 1 2 h and ESC [ 1 2 l (for setting that mode off and on, resp.), not sent by any keys. So I agree, something odd is happening with your xTerm. -- Fred ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred E.J. Linton Wesleyan U. Math. Dept. 649 Sci. Tower Middletown, CT 06457 E-mail: or -------------------------------------------------------------------------------