Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 151556
bindkey does not bind to F1 key using syntax from info page
Last modified: 2008-02-26 12:21:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050308 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-5 Description of problem: The bindkey command does not work for the F1 key in the way documented in the info pages for screen (see "info screen"). Not sure whether this is a documentation bug or a code bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start screen 2. Ctrl+A c Ctrl+A c (to create some more screens) 3. Ctrl+A 4. Type ":bindkey -k k1 select 1" (without the quotes) and press ENTER 5. Press the F1 key Actual Results: The command was accepted, but nothing happened when I pressed F1. Expected Results: Should switch to screen #1 Additional info: Terminal emulator is konsole from kdebase-3.4.0-1. Same problem occurs with xterm.
Erm, worksforme. Please try to reproduce again and make sure you have no typos or something in the command :). Also, note that screen 0 != screen 1.
No, still doesn't work. I am typing exactly: ":bindkey -k k1 select 1" - are you?
Note that not all terminals pass the key to screen as they should. However, in both linux tty and (some versions of) xterm this works as expected (unlike eg. konsole, which apparently catches the key or sends wrong key sequence (it is supposed to act like xterm)). I haven't tried in gnome-terminal. However, you are right in that the xterm as shipped with fedora core causes problems with this. Could you please at least confirm this works in a linux tty so we can rule out other causes (apart from the suspected terminal interaction). Maybe you could try with different TERM settings, but i didn't generate much success either. It could be either terminfo or the terminals themselves that are at fault though.
> Could you please at least confirm this works in a linux > tty so we can rule out other causes Yes, it does work when I do ctrl+alt+f1 and try it there.
It's feature of your KDE/Gnome/Xfce/... I'm using Xfce with multi-gnome. After I pressed F1, it'll open help in firefox - help is for current program, in this case help for screen. So you could change your button shortcuts.
It still doesn't work in xterm, and I don't see any keyboard shortcut for F1 in gnome-control-center. Please consider this bug as only about xterm since the other cases have been explained.
I reproduced problem with latest version in Fedora 8 $ rpm -qi screen Name : screen Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.0.3 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 8.fc8 Build Date: Fri 24 Aug 2007 03:37:18 AM PDT Install Date: Sun 04 Nov 2007 07:58:30 PM PST Build Host: xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com Group : Applications/System Source RPM: screen-4.0.3-8.fc8.src.rpm Size : 790133 License: GPLv2+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 25 Oct 2007 05:25:34 AM PDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Fedora Project URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/screen Summary : A screen manager that supports multiple logins on one terminal Description : The screen utility allows you to have multiple logins on just one terminal. Screen is useful for users who telnet into a machine or are connected via a dumb terminal, but want to use more than just one login. Install the screen package if you need a screen manager that can support multiple logins on one terminal.
The default config was using wrong sequences for xterm's F1-F4, should be fixed in screen-4.0.3-10.fc9.