Re: Control key not working

On Monday 10 November 2003 04:47 pm, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> Sorry if this is stupid question. I couldn't get control key to work with
> some apps in terminal. For example, I use joe text editor (which uses
> libncurses.so.5). All the command usually is with control, like ^k-x to
> quit, etc. I tried to use on screen keyboard and it wont work. CTRL-K would
> just give me the letter K.
> I am not sure what ctrl map to the qwerty keyboard also.
>
> Another example, I'd ssh to another machine, and then use pine. Then after
> I compose message, I can't do anything because all the command (pico
> editor) requires control. I believe pico use libncurses.so.5 too . Do you
> think this is related?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> RDB

Hmm, I actually just found out ctrl-key is not working at all in Terminal. For 
example, I can 'ping localhost', and I won't be able to quit with ctrl-c, it 
will only type the character c. I can only quit pinging localhost by actually 
killing the terminal. Hmmmm... any help?

RDB


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Reuben D. Budiardja
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