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Kpad not working like I wan't in most of terminal
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 ?
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...
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.
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 ?