On  5 Apr 02 at 16:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>In general xdosemu should get all keypresses without limits. Some window
>managers have a tendency to steal some of them though.

1. I do not know other windows managers, but chose ice, because it
does not rely on mouse and does not bind too much resources.

When I changed some lines in ice configuration files I noticed that
this had an effect on mc behaviour under X. So I made a couple of
tests without the ice window manager.

When I run xdosemu without ice with the prefix 'rxvt -e' (what is
this: shell? terminal?), all key combinations in NortonCommander
work. This is great.

QuattroPro with also a lot of key combinations: working.

When I tried to start MS-Word for DOS without ice wm it crashed and
shut down dosemu because the graphic mode did not work: it first
attempted to start MS-Word in a very small, ca. 50 pixel window,
before it crashed). When I changed the configuration to text mode
(what is not naturally what I desire) I noticed:

- the Alt+Fkey combinations formerly blocked by ice work
- the cursor within Word has a different shape now - the same
as in the command.com shell
- unfortunately the important Shift+Cursor combinations do not
work
- alt (alone) to enable the menu bar works (BTW: *with* ice, too)

>The keystroke problem is really only for terminals.
>Maybe some improvement is possible in the future though:
>in my xterm now (using 'cat'):
>left arrow ^[[D
>shift+left arrow ^[[2D
>alt+left arrow ^[[3D
>ctrl+left arrow ^[[5D
>so these all give different escape codes so dosemu should be able to
>recognize them.

2. I switched ice on again to test this on my machine:

- under xterm cat I get ^[[D ^[[D ^[[D ^[[D
- under rxvt cat I get  ^[[D ^[[d ^[^[[D ^[[0d

Probably the reason is that I have installed a Czech localization for
the keyboard under X. Anyway, disabling and enabling options in the
XF86Config file did not help. So in the end I made tested xterm
on a machine with same linux and X system installed, but without
localization. The result was: I got four different escape codes
even under xterm.

Finally I returned to the machine with the Czech keyboard
localization and ran mc through rxvt. All function keys worked.
Thanks for your help, Bart!

Are there any readable configuration files that I could edit in
order to influence the behaviour of function keys unter xterm?

Christof


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