help with X386?

[flinton at eagle.wesleyan.edu]

In article <16183.2809bec1 at levels.sait.edu.au>, mareb at 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
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