Home - End Keyboard Keys

[mariu...@gmail.com]

Hi

We just upgraded the jbase version and now the Home and End keys from
the keyboard are not doing what they are supposed to do.

Is there a way we can define the keys so that they are actually doing
their functions?

System Information
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System : Linux jbaseserver2009.avpbc.com
2.6.18-164.6.1.el5PAE.#1 SMP Tue Oct 27 11:46:58 EDT 2009 i686
OS Release : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release
5.4 (Tikanga)

Thanks

[Jim Idle]

Did you ONLY upgrade the jBASE version? In your working version, get to a shell and see what the value of the environment variable TERM is. Make sure that this is the same in your new environment. If you upgrade Linux at the same time, then it is possible that the definition of the terminal changed. You need to see what sequence those keys send to the tty and make sure that the same codes are defined in the terminfo definition for your terminal (whatever the TERM variable is set to).

So:

$ echo $TERM
vt100
$ infocmp vt100

I think there is a program called jkeys which will tell you the hex codes being sent for any key

$ man tic
$ man terminfo

It's also possible that you 'got away with it' before but don't now. But without more info, I cannot tell you ;-)

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Jim

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[mike ryder]

It may mean that you did not import your .jedrc file (that's dot
jedrc)

This little known file contains the strings to make your keyboard work
- although some very clever person made only work with octal....

And, it used to be, you can search the knowledgebase and read all
about it.

hth
Mike