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  1. Bug #96676
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 96676

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Thomas Dickey (dickey-his) wrote : Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

Agree: gnome-terminal has never emulated all of xterm's control sequences, and it is unlikely
that it ever will. That's why there is a separate terminfo entry "gnome" to address its actual
behavior. Set $TERM to "gnome" and report discrepancies there.

For instance, the comment about gnome's bug #337252 points to a change in xterm 5 years ago.
That's not recent.

By the way - to get correct information (rather than the miscellany of 2-3 year old secondary sources,
you might look at the xterm source itself. gnome-terminal developers do...