Re: under ncurses, mouse events come as escape codes

[Adam H. Peterson]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Adam H. Peterson wrote:
>
> > I'm having difficulty reading mouse events under NCurses.  Instead of 
> > receiving KEY_MOUSE from getch(), I'm getting escape codes.  For 
> > example, this program:
>
> perhaps $TERM isn't set properly (even though gnome-terminal hardcodes
> "xterm" rather than "gnome" ;-).  ncurses is looking for "xterm" embedded
> in the $TERM name, or kmous matching xterm's string in the corresponding
> terminfo description.

I was wondering about that.  I also tried it after "export TERM=gnome" 
and got the same results (and like I mentioned, I tried it in a bona 
fide XTerm as well).

Is there a way I can check that this is the problem?  (And if so, is 
there a fix?)  If it's relevant, I'm running Gentoo Linux 2005.1, and I 
also get the same problem under Ubuntu Hoary.