rxvt problems - traps control codes

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed Jan 24 05:50:00 GMT 2001


Andrew Logue wrote:
> 
> This should be an easy one:
> 
> I have rxvt running the win95 port of CMD.EXE.  However, ^C and the up/down
> arrow keys are intercepted by rxvt, and not passed on to CMD.EXE.  As a
> result, I cannot use doskey, even though CMD.EXE has loaded it.  Also, if I
> run a batch file through cmd.exe I cannot terminate it with ^C, since this
> terminates rxvt.
> 
> Please help me fix this!!  I know very little about termcaps, TERM, etc.
> 

The only fix, AFAIK, is for you to get the sources for rxvt, the xlib
from Bub's distro and make it do what you want.  Rxvt was designed to
control the UI so it isn't going to pass through the events of the
Mouse.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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