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 Message 2345 
 Vitaliy Aksyonov to Wilfred van Velzen 
 Re: Need volonteers to test another patc 
 14 Mar 24 10:32:22 
 
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TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03
Hello Wilfred.

14 Mar 24 15:25, you wrote to me:

 WvV>>> I suspect it might have to do with different escape sequences,
 WvV>>> or handling of, for the function keys in the 'linux' and
 WvV>>> 'putty' settings.

 VA>> You're completely right. That's the reason. And when you change
 VA>> terminal type, ncurses expects different escape sequences.

 VA>> My settings are:
 VA>> terminal type putty

 VA>> Then in Terminal->Keyboard:

 VA>> The Backspace key -> Control-?
 VA>> The Home and End keys -> Standard
 VA>> The Function keys and keypad -> ESC[n~

 WvV> That was the one that was different for me.

 WvV> I also had to Disable remote-controled terminal resizing, otherwise my
 WvV> terminal would resize to 80 chars wide after closing golded.

Good.

 VA>> Shift/Ctrl/Alt with the arrow keys -> Ctrl toggles app mode
 VA>> Initial state of cursor keys -> Normal
 VA>> Initial state of numeric keypad -> Normal
 VA>> AltGf acts as Compose key -> off
 VA>> Control-Alt is different from AltGf -> on

 VA>> In Terminal->Features all is off except "Disable application
 VA>> keypad mode"

 VA>> Try my settings. It could work.

 WvV> It fixed the keyboard problems. But not how golded looks. The line
 WvV> drawing characters are still the 'qqqqqq' kind. It doesn't matter if I
 WvV> use luit or not.

 WvV> What did help, was enabling in Window/Tranlation: Enable VT100 line
 WvV> drawing even in UTF-8 mode So now I can use the 'putty-256color'
 WvV> terminal type. :-)

The only difference that I don't run golded in UTF, that's why you had to
change this parameter. Glad it works for you!

Vitaliy

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