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Originally Posted by sulu

Did you notice that <Enter> doesn't work in vfu? It's not a tragedy if you have lynx-like motion activated but it would be better if it worked.

I had a look at the vfu sources and it sems to me that vfu checks the ASCII code a key generates and if it's 10(d) or 13(d) the Enter routines are executed. For some reason Maemo (hildon?) does not seem to allow/create that ASCII code.
I tried your vfu package, mine and the standard Debian package via debbie. With none of them <Enter> works. But if I run vfu within a fully loaded Easy Debian on the N900 Enter works and according to xev it creates the ASCII code 0d(b) which is 13(d). I ran xev via debbie to see what happens in Maemo but here I get no reasonable output in xev on key press events at all.

Do you have any idea what's going on there?

Edit:I'm aware that the key on the N900 keyboard is <Enter> and not <Return> and that both create different keycodes. But they create the same ASCII codes according to xev on my laptops And the N900 <Enter> works fine fot vfu in Easy Debian so I'm pretty sure this is not the problem.

Did you notice that <Enter> doesn't work in vfu?

Originally Posted by colin.stephane

On my side I can use <ENTER> key, for example, using <ENTER> from physical keyboard on the highlighted directory, enter properly in it.

Originally Posted by sulu

I can't. I have to enter directories with <right arrow>. I can't exit the options menu with <Enter> (on the physical N900 keyboard) and I can't view a file by pressing <Enter>.
In mc <Enter> works fine.

Do you happed to have busybox-power [1] installed? I don't. Edit3: I installed busybox-power but that doesn't change anything.
This is my options menu, just in case that makes a difference:

Code:

Options/Toggles (scroll down, SPACE selects)  
--screen--------------------------------------
 1 Show Mode  field                       YES 
 2 Show Owner field                       YES 
 3 Show Group field                        -  
 4 Show Time  field                       YES 
 5 Show Size  field                       YES 
 6 Show Type  field                        -  
 7      Time Type                      MODIFY 
 8 Long name view                          -  
   TagMark type                            => 
   Use colors                              -  
   Use /etc/DIR_COLORS                     -  
   Lowercase extensions for configs       YES 
 . Show hidden files                      YES 
--navigation----------------------------------
 i Use internal viewer                    YES 
 I Use internal editor                     -  
   Use menu borders                        -  
--trees/dirs-- -------------------------------
   Compact DirTree                         -  
   CDTree (cdpath)                         -  
--troubleshooting-----------------------------
   Clear screen on shell                  YES 
--compatibility-------------------------------
   Lynx style navigation                  YES 
   Mask auto expand                       YES 
   Use CWD as target for COPY/MOVE         -  
--other---------------------------------------
 b Allow beep!                             -  
 s Free space check on copy               YES 
   Auto mount on change dir               YES 
   Preserve selection (after rescan)      YES 
   Preserve ownership/mode on copy?       YES 
   Show user's free space                 YES 
   Calc/Show bytes on copy                YES 
   Calc/Show bytes freed on erase         YES

My vfu.conf is unchanged except for replacing joe with nano as the default editor.

Edit:
When I log into my N900 via ssh both <Enter> and <Return> on my laptop's keyboard work as expected in vfu. It's really only the N900 <Enter> that doesn't work. And even that works fine in vfu started in Easy Debian.

Edit2:
It seems like the problem lies not in vfu itself or its dependencies. I logged into another computer via ssh from my N900 which has vfu installed and there the N900 <Enter> doesn't work either. So it must have something to do with my Maemo/hildon/busybox/locale/whatever...

[1] http://maemo.org/downloads/product/M...busybox-power/

Originally Posted by sulu

Code:

~ $ echo $LANG
de_DE

Do I see your using bash instead of busybox?

Originally Posted by sulu

I've set $LANG to de_DE.UTF8 and even to fr_FR.UTF8 (just in case...) but <Enter> in vfu still doesn't work.

Edit:
It's not the shell either. I started vfu from bash but nothing changed. I'm running out of ideas.