I am wondering if screen somehow finds the key code via the hardware or keyboard driver, or if just looks up the value of whatever character is produced.
Situation: I have 3 keys next to the media keys that only produce a ^@ NUL character in cat. showkey gives me different values for each key though. I tested with one which produced 144 in showkey. Converting it to octal gives \220. So I did bind \220 exec /usr/bin/mocp -G It doesn't work. I'm guessing that screen only looks at the actual character produced (in this case ^@ NUL) and looks up the number for that, and doesn't do what I would like - i.e. look at what number the keyboard driver outputs in the same way that showkey does. -- The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be general systems laws. For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking Science, Social Science, and Computer Science. Discuss the generality of this law, and possible reasons for its predictive power. -- Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking." _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users