[GRASS5] g.help key codes

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Markus Neteler wrote:

> thanks for this: I have found it on my Linux box.
> But...
> The strange thing is that the *working* keycodes are different
> from any program output (I tried different than xkeycaps).
> 
> PAGEUP    '\065'     
> PAGEDOWN  '\066'
> ESC       '\033'

  These are the octal codes '\O (Oh, not zero)..'. Hex would start '0x.. '.

  There's another program ... I think the name is 'xev' (for x event) that
tells you everything ... yes, that's the name. When you run that from a
virtual terminal, you'll see a small box pop up, and every cursor movement,
mouse button press/release or key press/release will be shown on screen.

  Click the mouse in the small box, then press the up-arrow and down-arrow
keys (I assume that's what you meant by "lineup" and "linedown".

> I guess this is hex, octal or whatever. But even with converting
> to dec I could not find out:
> LINEUP
> LINEDOWN

  Anyway, xev will show you the key code and scan code (plus a whole bunch
more that makes no sense to me) for every key you press. That should help.
At the least, it will give you hours of entertainment. :-)

Rich

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