key Shift+Prior not working for scroll-up in xterm but in urxvt

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, February 09, 2015 a las 04:54:05AM -0500, Thomas Dickey escribió:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:03:48PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Friday, February 06, 2015 a las 04:25:25AM -0500, Thomas Dickey escribió:
> > 
> > > > I run this 11C on a small netbook (Acer C720) which does not have physical
> > > > keys for PG_UP/DOWN; that's why I use xmodmap to define 
> > > > 
> > > > Mode_switch + UP --> Prior
> > > > Mdee_switch + Down --> Next
> > > > 
> > > > xmodmap -e "keycode 98  =  Up   Up   Prior"
> > > > xmodmap -e "keycode 104 =  Down Down Next"
> > > > 
> > > > When I now do in the terminal urxvt holding down both Mode_switch and
> > > > Shift, it scrolls fine with the Up and Down keys as expected: the
> > > > terminal window is scrolled up and down.
> > > > 
> > > > When I do the same, the key is delivered to the xterm itself and I can
> > > > see them, for example, with 'od -c' as:
> > > > 
> > > > $ od -c
> > > > ^[[5;2~^[[5;2~
> > > > ^[[6;2~^[[6;2~
> > > > 0000000  033   [   5   ;   2   ~ 033   [   5   ;   2   ~  \n 033   [   6
> > > > 0000020    ;   2   ~ 033   [   6   ;   2   ~  \n                        
> > > > 0000032
> > > > 
> > > > The 033 [ 5 ; 2 ~ for Up and the 033 [ 6 ; 2 ~ for down.
> > > > 
> > > > Why this does not work in xterm?
> > > 
> > > That depends on what you want it to do (you did not say).
> > 
> > I think, I said what I want: that with Mode_switch+Shift+Up/Down it does
> > scrolling in xterm as it does in uRxvt.
> > 
> > I followed your hints an tried configurations in the file
> > ~/.Xdefaults-hostname:
> > 
> > *VT100.translations: #override \
> > 	Shift<Key>Up:		scroll-back(1,page) \n\
> > 	Shift<Key>Down:		scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
> > 	Shift<Key>F9: string("hola")
> > 
> > (the last line for F9 is only to see if the file works at all).
> > 
> > With the above config it now scrolls in xterm with Shift-Up/Down. But
> > I'm unable to configure that it scrolls with Mode_switch+Shift+Up/Down
> > and I want to have this to use the same key sequence in xterm and uRxvt
> > and not always have to think where I am.
> > 
> > Any idea? Thanks
> 
> not immediately: my keyboard does not have a mode_switch key
> (unless I tinker with xmodmap...).

My keyboard does not has this key either; I'm using xmodmap and redefine
the so called Windows-key with:

xmodmap -e "keycode 0x40 =  Mode_switch"

If you want to test my problem, you could use this.

About the rest of your hints I have to think deeper;

Thx

	matthias

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