xmodmap keystrings (2)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Marty Jack wrote:

> On 04/26/2011 11:35 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 04/26/11 08:19 AM, frank wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Alan,
>>>
>>> Thanks for replying. It seems I didn't make myself clear.
>>>
>>> Please go to a graphic terminal, press ^V then F1 or F2 or Home or
>>> Left or any of the functional keys. You are inserting the keystring
>>> associated with those keys. Home for instance has "^[OH" (not same
>>> as in text console).
>>>
>>> Where are these strings listed? Surely there must be a header file
>>> somewhere? How it is called? Where is it?
>>
>> Those are defined in the terminal emulator you are using, not X itself,
>> and have nothing to do with xmodmap.
>>
>> Check the source code of xterm, gnome-terminal, etc.  (Sorry, I don't
>> know the exact .c or .h file there.) They should be  referenced in the
>> matching termcap/terminfo entries as well.

Not exactly (gnome-terminal as such is a wrapper around vte, which 
provides all of the terminal emulation part).

> If you go to http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html and 
> look for the sections beginning at "PC-Style Function Keys" section, it 
> is a start.  These are for xterm but almost all terminal emulators will 
> do this the same way.

All but the end of that section - the other emulators differ from xterm.

To see some of that, look at
 	infocmp xterm-new konsole
 	infocmp xterm-new putty
 	infocmp xterm-new vte (or gnome)

using ncurses 5.9's terminal database of course.

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