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kilobyte / kbtin

TinTin++-style MUD client
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Kpad not working like I wan't in most of terminal #8

Open Aesran opened 2 years ago

Aesran commented 2 years ago

Hi there !

First of all, I'm a very big fan of Kbtin, if I didn't go back on window some years ago, I would have used it much more ! Yeah I know, I could use it on window.. But it doesn't the same feeling :D

Anw, I'm back to UBuntu on my main deskop and my laptop. So I'm trying to set up my Kbtin to be more... usefull. And here is the trick : I can"t have a Kpad working. It working fine on xterm, aterm. But in Gnome-terminal and Tabby the keypad just work like arrow even in alternate mode.

I find gnome-terminal and tabby more .. user-friendly. So I would like to use them instead of aterm.

Do you have some helpfull source I could use to making things work ?

kilobyte commented 2 years ago

This is a bug in gtk-3 versions of libvte. It's an intentional regression: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/229 of something that used to work fine since the very days of vt100.

And it's indeed infuriating, as it makes 20% of the keyboard effectively useless, redundant with other arrow/etc keys.

Very recently I've reported the same problem in Zutty, and its author was very helpful and fixed it immediately. Libvte on the other hand...

kilobyte commented 2 years ago

If you can somehow use terminals built on GTK-2 versions of libvte, they don't have that regression, but sadly most distros have dropped it already.

Aesran commented 2 years ago

The answer on the gnome issue is a little sad ... "Since we heard nobody complain, we won't change something broken"...

So I need to use something else for playing. Exept xterm / aterm, have you some advice on which terminal-emulator I could use ?