Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.5-5 Severity: normal
I have noticed that Shift F1-F4, Ctrl F1-F4 and similar combinations do not work as expected in xterm when it is used with the terminfo database shipped with ncurses-base. On the other hand, these combinations work okay with the database I have compiled from xterm.terminfo file shipped with the xterm package. People on debian-russian explained me that as a workaround I could set XTerm*modifyFunctionKeys to 0 to force xterm to use the old obsolete behavior. This helps, however in Debian this resource is not set by default. Just in case I am attaching a short program you can use to test the keys and see the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (900, 'proposed-updates'), (900, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-minimal Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages ncurses-base depends on: ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ncurses-base recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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