-- Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 22 October 2002, 01:34 PM +0200):
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:28:06 +1000, Russell wrote:
> > I just installed rxvt on debian woody with fvwm2. It runs ok,
> > except when i open midnight commander in an rxvt window, the
> > keypad up/down/home/end movement keys don't work as they did
> > in an xterm. When i press them, i just get characters printed:
> [snip]
> 
> Yes, rxvt's keypad handling is (IMHO) broken. When numlock is on,
> the terminal should send the ASCII code of the digits, not the
> corresponding keypad escape sequences.
> 
> > How to fix? Does terminfo get used by a curses app in an
> > X window?
> 
> 3 solutions:
> 
>   * Use XFree86 XTerm, not rxvt (nowadays, I find that xterm works
>     better than rxvt).
You might also look at aterm -- it's comparable to rxvt in regards to
resource usage.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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