id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 49 savannah: Reassigned item: putty and other terminals mirkobau "Original: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16910 ||Submitted by:||mirko ||Submitted on:||Thu 22 Jun 2006 01:30:35 PM UTC|| ||Category:||None||Severity:||3 - Normal|| ||Status:||None||Privacy:||Public|| ||Assigned to:||None||Open/Closed:||Open|| ||Release:||None||Operating System:||None|| Original submission: {{{ putty (puttyssh.org) is an xterm-compliant terminal emulator with mouse support, and has its own terminfo definition file that instructs ncurses how to correctly recognize the keys received, but in 'src/main.c' the 'if..' block does tests only on xterm, rxvt, and dtterm terminals. i used TERM=xterm-color, but when i found the terminfo file 'putty- 256color' i wanted to use it. After standard compilation everythyng was running well (home/end keys, and all others), but mc had no mouse support. actually i have corrected this problem adding the comparison: || strncmp (termvalue, ""putty"", 5) == 0 in the main.c file, in function init_xterm_support(), but i suggest to insert a parameter in a global option file, in wich a sysadmin could insert a line such as: [xterm-compliant] xterm* rxvt* dtterm putty* fooxterm* barxterm* ... and so on. thank you for the time spent in reading my opinions. bye from Mir (it@euro). }}} Comment 1 by Pavel Tsekov at Tue 25 Apr 2006 01:44:34 PM UTC: {{{ http://puttyssh.org/faq.html#faq-term Where does putty-256color come from ? Anyway, I think that your suggestion about adding a new section to the configuration file makes sense. }}} Comment 2 by mirko at Tue 25 Apr 2006 02:56:11 PM UTC: {{{ i took it from a terminfo definitions file, downloadable from: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ the file i used is: terminfo.src.gz inside it i have found a section with putty and putty-256color definitions: gunzip terminfo.src.gz tic terminfo.src note: tic says that terminfo.src has some errors, but i didn't care, 'cause i really need the definitions for xterm* and putty* terminals. }}} Comment 3 by Leonard den Ottolander at Thu 22 Jun 2006 01:30:35 PM UTC: {{{ This item has been reassigned from the project GNU Midnight Commander patch tracker to your tracker. The original report is still available at patch #5050 Following are the information included in the original report: [field #0] Item ID: 5050 [field #1] Group ID: 3521 [field #2] Open/Closed: Open [field #3] Severity: 3 - Normal [field #4] Privacy: Public [field #6] Category: Keyboard input [field #7] Submitted by: mirkobau [field #8] Assigned to: None [field #9] Submitted on: Monday 24/04/06 at 11:34 [field #10] Summary: putty and other terminals [field #11] Original Submission: putty (puttyssh.org) is an xterm- compliant terminal emulator with mouse support, and has its own terminfo definition file that instructs ncurses how to correctly recognize the keys received, but in src/main.c the if.. block does tests only on xterm, rxvt, and dtterm terminals. i used TERM=xterm-color, but when i found the terminfo file putty- 256color i wanted to use it. After standard compilation everythyng was running well (home/end keys, and all others), but mc had no mouse support. actually i have corrected this problem adding the comparison: | | strncmp (termvalue, ""putty"", 5) == 0 in the main.c file, in function init_xterm_support(), but i suggest to insert a parameter in a global option file, in wich a sysadmin could insert a line such as: [xterm-compliant] xterm* rxvt* dtterm putty* fooxterm* barxterm* ... and so on. thank you for the time spent in reading my opinions. bye from Mir (it@euro). [field #13] Item Group: None [field #14] Status: None [field #15] Component Version: None [field #16] Operating System: None [field #17] Reproducibility: None [field #18] Size (loc): None [field #19] Fixed Release: None [field #20] Planned Release: None [field #21] Effort: 0.00 [field #25] Priority: 5 - Normal [field #28] Percent Complete: 0% [field #30] Release: None [field #55] Custom Select Box #1: None [field #56] Custom Select Box #2: None [field #57] Custom Select Box #3: None [field #58] Custom Select Box #4: None [field #59] Custom Select Box #5: None [field #60] Custom Select Box #6: None [field #61] Custom Select Box #7: None [field #62] Custom Select Box #8: None [field #63] Custom Select Box #9: None [field #64] Custom Select Box #10: None }}} " defect closed major mc-core wontfix no branch