I am using the alacritty terminal emulator under Zorin 16. My two enter keys are giving different output.
% showkey -a
Press any keys - Ctrl-D will terminate this program
^M 13 0015 0x0d
^J 10 0012 0x0a
Primary Enter Key is giving ^M, The Numpad Enter Key is giving ^J.
This is true for both bash and zsh.
I want both keys to give ^M.
How can I achieve this?
Yes, it seems alacritty is configured by default to send LF (aka \n, ^J) upon keypad enter, and also regardless of whether application keypad mode is enabled (after tput smkx) even though the terminfo entry (on Ubuntu 20.04 at least) has kent=\EOM, while all other terminals send CR (and most send \EOM after tput smkx).
You can change it by adding:
key_bindings:
- { key: NumpadEnter, chars: "\r" }
To your ~/.config/alacritty.yml (or your preferred path for that file, there are several options, see manual).
Note that in any case, the terminal device driver is generally configured by default to translate CR to LF automatically upon input (look for icrnl in the output of stty -a), so it would generally not make much difference in practice. It's only for those TUI applications that disable that setting (as showkey does) that you may see a difference.
tput smkxortput rmkxor with or without NumLock enabled?^M.