On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:14:38PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [my infocmp output snipped] > > > ...and no bce. Recent versions of screen allow you to set bce in its > > configuration, but you have to install a terminfo entry for screen > > which adds 'bce', so it will work properly. > > I fear we might be trying to solve the wrong problem, here. You see, > I've only had "defbce on" in /etc/screenrc and the aforementioned > ~/.terminfo/s/screen entry (symlinked to > /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-bce ) to inform screen that the terminal > supports BCE for _two days_, and the symptom appeared a year or so ago.
but your listing from infocmp didn't show that. > Ordinarily, I'm very careful not to introduce more variables into a > diagnostic situation: I chanced enabling Background Color Erase support > two days ago only because I kept careful track of those steps, so I > could reverse them. > > Which I've just done: I commented out "defbce on" in /etc/screenrc, > removed ~/.terminfo/ , terminated screen, and restarted it. Running > infocmp again (under screen), one now sees: the same as before: the 'screen' terminfo which has no 'bce' capability. > :r! infocmp > > # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /etc/terminfo/s/screen > screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal, > am, km, mir, msgr, xenl, -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
