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Re: Perfecting the terminal application.

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Originally Posted by spanner (Post 499445)

Can I also direct attention to 2 languishing bugs that affect xterm & GNU screen usability:

"Enter" key sends wrong keycode to console applications

Ah, yes this is extremely annoying, I don't know how it's not affecting me more, it seems to disappear via ssh -> screen -> irssi from what I can tell. [update] Oh I've mapped the wrong Enter key to do the right thing in vim, so I think I'm just not noticing. Tools like irssi and alpine don't mind the wrong Enter.

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* UTF-8 would be very nice

This part works. In fact I get correct double wide chars, this and URL matching to spawn windows, are two actual improvements in the terminal app on the n900, I obviously want to keep these ;)

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* I'm happy with CTRL-I instead of Tab

No! It can't be that hard to fix this. I think I'd accept losing the scrolly page up if I can change that part of the code to send a Tab. Shift-Fn-Up scrolls back just like Shift-PgUp in a real Xterm as I've mapped Fn-Up/Down to do PgUp and PgDn.

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* I'm resigned that cut & paste will never be "with ease" on a device this size (especially with the font size I use). It's a stylus job each time for me, dwarfing the effort of selecting cut/paste from the menu.

Again, no! A) I find my nail has great accuracy and that's what I drive the display with normally anyway B) this could be a quick fix. like enabling auto copy and having something like camera button as a paste.

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Very interested to hear your "further details"!

I've updated as much as I can remember. The rest of the fixes are going to have to involve digging in to the code or finding people better than me to help resolve this faster.

Does anyone have any comments about the direction, is everyone else very happy with the terminal?

Re: Perfecting the terminal application.

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Originally Posted by SubCore (Post 499504)

just a thought:
have you considered porting an X Terminal Application that better fits your needs?

Most of the issues are very Hildon/Maemo/n900 specific. The limited keyboard, the way of having/dealing with fullscreen and gestures for example.

I've X forwarded Xterm, and I can get a nice font and Ctrl-Left click lets me at least select ^H as backspace (I forgot to moan about that above ;)) but that's really not that useful in general without a middle click I can't paste stuff I've highlighted and I can't do loads of the other stuff I've mentioned in this new thread.

Re: Perfecting the terminal application.

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Originally Posted by damion (Post 499407)

.... I want Ctrl to be the Ctrl key and I want it sticky.

So... I sshed to a UNIX box with xkbset using -X on the ssh so I have X forwarding. However when I run "xkbset st" I get Ctrl to be sticky, but this turns off sticky shift and I don't know why. Does anyone know?

I'm guessing it's a non +accessx capability compiled in to the window manager as a whole and so will require running a patched version of whatever is doing this to add Ctrl to it, or remove shift and let xkb do it.

Ideas?

I can confirm that running xkbset on the device (as in this post) disables the sticky shift key in Maemo apps (like the terminal). Non-Maemo apps, like Debian Roxterm, have all of the sticky keys enabled.