Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Vitaliy Aksyonov
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Mar 14 2024 03:25 pm

Hi Vitaliy,

On 2024-03-14 07:19:32, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> I suspect it might have to do with different escape sequences, or
 WvV>> handling of, for the function keys in the 'linux' and 'putty'
 WvV>> settings.

 VA> You're completely right. That's the reason. And when you change terminal
 VA> type, ncurses expects different escape sequences.

 VA> My settings are:
 VA> terminal type putty

 VA> Then in Terminal->Keyboard:

 VA> The Backspace key -> Control-?
 VA> The Home and End keys -> Standard
 VA> The Function keys and keypad -> ESC[n~

That was the one that was different for me.

I also had to Disable remote-controled terminal resizing, otherwise my terminal 
would resize to 80 chars wide after closing golded.

 VA> Shift/Ctrl/Alt with the arrow keys -> Ctrl toggles app mode
 VA> Initial state of cursor keys -> Normal
 VA> Initial state of numeric keypad -> Normal
 VA> AltGf acts as Compose key -> off
 VA> Control-Alt is different from AltGf -> on

 VA> In Terminal->Features all is off except "Disable application keypad mode"

 VA> Try my settings. It could work.

It fixed the keyboard problems. But not how golded looks. The line drawing 
characters are still the 'qqqqqq' kind.
It doesn't matter if I use luit or not.

What did help, was enabling in Window/Tranlation: Enable VT100 line drawing 
even in UTF-8 mode
So now I can use the 'putty-256color' terminal type. :-)


Bye, Wilfred.

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