On Sunday, September 8, 2013 4:00:02 AM UTC-4, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> OK, I have the following script (reduced, just enough to demonstrate
>
> the problem):
> --- test.sh ---
> #!/bin/bash
> cmd="apt-cache search debian-installer | sort | egrep --color=always -i
> debian-installer"
> #tput nrrm
On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that
>
> > it's roughly comparable to rxvt
>
>
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta
On Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:30:01 AM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote:
> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>
> > I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape
> > sequences, which are based on ecma-48
>
>
>
> I'd extend that to suggest that most terminal emulators support the
> ma
On Friday, October 12, 2012 10:50:01 AM UTC-4, houkensjtu wrote:
> I installed finch by apt-get install finch.
>
> Unfortunately all key-binding doesn't work in Xterm.
>
> Since xterm is the most frequently used term for me, it's quite annoying. I
> found on debian bug report log that also othe
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Help, whenever I close firefox, gimp, etc. (emacs is OK though.) I have
to switch windows back and forth before I can continue typing into the
window I am left starting at. Else my keystrokes are ignored
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Help, whenever I close firefox, gimp, etc. (emacs is OK though.) I have
to switch windows back and forth before I can continue typing into the
window I am left starting at. Else my keystrokes are ignored. I use
Debian sid/experimental. pstree says:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Matthew Smith wrote:
Quoth Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. at 14/10/09 23:12...
Your font has betrayed you. The single-column-mode option is "-1"
(dash-one), your messages says you tried the option "-l" (dash-ell) which
requested a
detailed (long) listing.
Aha! Sure looked lik
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hello,
Distribution: Debian Testing
Recently, after an apt-get dist-upgrade, when I hit control-c, I get the
following in an xterm:
$ ^C
It occurs with aterm/xterm, bash and csh.
It's not related to versions of xterm (noting "aterm" above, and chec
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
however, Debian's packagage maintainer for mawk has not responded to any of
package...
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
/proc/pid/cmdline usually has ASCII NUL separated fields, which awk does
not split, so usually you have to use xargs -0. I noticed some cases
where
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
/proc/pid/cmdline usually has ASCII NUL separated fields, which awk does
not split, so usually you have to use xargs -0. I noticed some cases
where the args were space separated (perl script),
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:00:08PM +0200, Otto Maddox wrote:
> I have been having DEL/delete/backspace problems, the cause of which I
> have traced to the following bug report:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319554
>
> In summary, version 5.5-5 of libncurses5 (and libncurses
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> zhang zhengquan writes:
>
> >Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me...
>
> To verify that the correct resources are being used, run
> "xterm -fn 10x20". This will start an xterm with that font,
> or display an error th
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:20:12AM +0100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are
> > doable with the extension I added a few years ago, and have tested in
&
t; I think the next/new ncurses will allow this sort of thing. Maybe Thomas
> Dickey has more info. He seems to magically pop in if xterm or lynx is
> mentioned in a post. :)
google (though as time passes, it's more and more spotty in its coverage)
I hadn't really thought about gpm
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:30:07AM +0100, David Purton wrote:
> Becuase complex charaters become hard to read, especially at small point
> sizes. Bold is set to be a different colour, I don't need a different
> typeface as well. Many terminals have the option to disable bold fonts -
> it's just a p
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:20:07AM +0100, lee wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:46:26PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:30:09AM +0100, lee wrote:
> > > The web page looks good --- but it seems to tell me that it isn't
> > > possible
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:30:09AM +0100, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:07:50PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:40:07AM +0100, lee wrote:
> > > Hm, there seem to be lots of options in lynx.cfg, but almost
> > > everything is disabl
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:40:07AM +0100, lee wrote:
> Hm, there seem to be lots of options in lynx.cfg, but almost
> everything is disabled. The file has 3569 lines, but only 34 lines are
> not empty and don't start with a "." or a "#". And there is no manpage
> about lynx.cfg.
Most of those "356
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 06:40:04AM +0100, lee wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:47:23PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:04:22PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > > how do I configure lynx to display or to have an option to display
> > > gziped files (like README.Debian.gz) inste
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:20:09AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
...
> ...where'd i go wrong?
I don't _see_ the problem. But when I'm puzzled by a configuration problem
with lynx, I use the trace options to see what it is actually loading.
You should be able to do
oldl
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:50:19PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TD> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away.
> wrote:
> >> Configuration file "3D3D/tmp/lynxcfg
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TD> You don't have to run it with root: "oldlynx" is a script that calls lynx.
> TD> So you could put "oldlynx" in your
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:10:07AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TD> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:10:17PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away.
> wrote:
> TD> If lynx thinks there's no color-style file,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:10:17PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TD> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:00:21PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away.
> wrote:
> >> there's nothing in there about col
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:00:21PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> # local overides for lynx-cur configuration
> STARTFILE:http://www.debian.org/
> NNTPSERVER:cis.dfn
>
> there's nothing in there about color_style. in fact, the only
> thing in the entire directory about color_s
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:29:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:20:14PM +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > IIRC, there
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:20:14PM +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > IIRC, there's a (Debian-specific?) bug in ncurses regarding WINCH.
>
> Is it reported? That's an extremely annoying bug that is asking to be
> stomped with extreme prejudice.
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:00:32AM +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 06/30/08 15:47, Martin Kraus wrote:
> > hello,
> > I've got a problem with resizing terminal windows. The information about
> > terminal resizing doesn't always reach the applica
gt;> >
>> > (The verb "try" is appropriate here, as mlterm is a bit buggy).
>>
>> Hmmm, I do not remember since when, but maybe since Potato?
>>
>> It seems, "mlterm" will be never run stable. before this
>> happen Thomas
oxy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, i just installed debian/gnome and am discovering it.
> At first, few things sound strange:
> where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[
> The /usr/share/man is actually there ...
> an apropos? whatis?
> `xtem --help` says that `xterm -fs 14` should w
hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just installed lynx. I am a vim user and I like to use vim key
> map on lynx and use the same terminal background color (black) in lynx
> (lynx uses gray background by default) when I start the lynx.
It's set in the lynx.lss file (see the comment at the top o
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> IIRC there was a situation a few years ago where you had to install a
>>> Unicode-enabled xterm, pass "-u", or both. Sarge dates to
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-01-01 20:57 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> Note that just changing the environment variable inside the terminal
>> won't help -- it's the terminal that needs to interpret those sequences,
>> so you have to run *the terminal itself* in the new lo
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC there was a situation a few years ago where you had to install a
> Unicode-enabled xterm, pass "-u", or both. Sarge dates to 2005; I'm sure
> that there were X terminals in 2005 that could handle UTF-8, but I don't
> know if the default xterm did
Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While you are at it, consider using vim instead of vi unless you have a good
> reason not to do so.
this statement leads naturally into the next:
> Well, therein lies my lack of experience! I didn't even know there was a
> difference, vim is what I
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I edit the .Xdefaults :
> xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
(the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font)
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Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I edit the .Xdefaults :
> xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
(the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font)
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Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I edit the .Xdefaults :
> xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
(the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font)
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Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I edit the .Xdefaults :
> xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
(the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font)
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Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box. On
> OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM
> is set to vt220.
vt220's don't do color.
OpenBSD console is normally set to make $TERM to "vt200"
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had a pty-related error with xterm on PowerPC in the past. I had
> to use the following workaround in my app-defaults file for XTerm:
I don't think it is related (it's a different error code).
> ! On ay (PPC), ones needs to set eightBitInput to t
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wanted to describe the control-mouse alternate screen switching
> capability because it is useful to know about and can help people
> understand what is happening at a better level of detail. People who
> have never heard of the alternate screen buffer of
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curious! I haven't had xterm installed now for some time, so I'm going
> from memory. Main reason I chose aterm was for the smaller footprint.
> At the moment I have 2 aterms running that would suggest more than
> scrollback buffer size are factors in RSS:
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> aterm is also a very nice replacement to xterm because it uses so little
> memory. (The 3 aterm windows I have up right now show RSS of 2404,
> 2448, and 2464 in output from ps aux.)
There are several variables. For instance, the scrollback size affects
t
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:40:11PM +0200, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Using the standard xterm the control-middle mouse button will display
> many options of which one is "Show Alternate Screen". It is possible
> to flip back and forth (inconveniently) to see this manually switch to
> the alternate screen
pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Launching /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm from a terminal yields the following lines:
>
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: XF86Paste
> Warning: ... found while parsing '
> XF86Paste:insert-selection(SELECT, CUT_BUFFER0) '
> Warning
pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Launching /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm from a terminal yields the following lines:
odd - that moved to /usr/bin last year.
Is this from the updated Debian package?
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: XF86Paste
> Warning: ... found while pa
Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was trying some bigger fonts to use with xterm but adding them and
> then starting xterm would make xterm size very large, more than the
> screen size. So I edited .Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option
> to a reasonable geometry size.
http://invisibl
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I
>> > ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that w
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Am 2007-05-16 15:59:10, schrieb cothrige:
>> > I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it
>> > scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in
>> > /usr/bin with
Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/23/07, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you can't get the menu bar .. you could alway do a Ctrl+mouse button
>> (right, left, middle) to bring up xterm menus.
> Menubar? In an xterm? Well, atleast I am knowledgeless about this if
> it's possible. I
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-05-17 11:03:57 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> For "large" scrollbacks, e.g., more than 10,000 lines,
>> xterm has its own problems.
> Hmm... yes. I've tried with xterm using a 20,000-line scrollback,
>
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-05-16 15:59:10 -0500, cothrige wrote:
>> I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it
>> scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in
>> /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.63
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that's not good. THat means X is ignoring those keystrokes and passing
> them through to Xterm.
Fortunately, "X" ignores keystrokes, so you're able to use your keyboard.
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Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> and press CTRL+ALT+F1?
> Well...if I do that while I'm still in the XTerm, I see...
> ^[[1;7P
> ...but I think that's just XTerm freaking out. When another frame
> is focused and I press the buttons, there is no output.
It helps to read the documentat
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is someone who reads this list by the name of Thomas Dickey who
> seems to maintain the Xterm package, I suspect that he could provide an
> answer.
Actually I maintain the xterm program (and others), but no packages.
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Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:36PM +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:47:35AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> > Short of working out a setterm recipe, does anyone know of a TERM
>> > setting I can uses that only doe
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:01:30AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:03:33 -0600
>> "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> > I'm sure you'll get better and more pertinent replies, even for the
>> > opera vs fir
Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sarge and etch offer two packages containing xterm - one of which
> calls itself something like XTERM(unicode), except not quite that.
Perhaps you're thinking of rxvt-unicode (which is not xterm).
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H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was helping a friend setup his system with Indic fonts with unicode
> support some time ago (a few months). We couldn't get it working in
> xterm but it was a breeze to get gnome-terminal and konsole working with
Reading your comment closely, it appears that
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Arlie Stephens wrote:
>>
>>>> I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
>>>> notably my email client mutt. Othe
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Finally, open gnome-terminal or konsole and fire up mutt. You should see
> various language characters in all their glory. BTW, xterm does not
> support UTF-8 properly yet.
that, or you're not reading the manpage.
(hint: provide a useful bug report)
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H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arlie Stephens wrote:
>>
>> I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
>> notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow
> Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this
> right. Try this:
yawn
Gnu_Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>From: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Wrote one day while in band camp:
>> I'm trying to get emacs setup for mutt and slrn. It works really well,
>> except for one thing. When I use it as my editor with emacs -nw, the
>> alt- key combos get muddled by xterm
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> A good place to start learning would be by reading bug reports for
>> gnome-terminal (some are older than your cited experience, but each
>> release of gnome-terminal produces new and interesting bugs).
> Interesting. I guess the word regression d
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:19:34AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> It appears you didn't read the whole thread (one's mentioned ;-).
> I did. Jerome's single problem was mentioned in a reply to a reply to
> Marc
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd be ineterested to learn more. I have been using gnome-terminal
> nearly every day since I started using Debian in late 2002. I have had
> very few issues with gnome-terminal.
>From what I read on google, you're an end-user of gnome-terminal, an
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Naturally, since he provided *zero* substantiation for his position (if
> you could even call it that), I asked if he had in fact used it. Now, I
> don't consider that bouncing email around. He did not provide a single
> point why gnome-terminal was
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:57:19PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0500, R
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you for that. In the mean time I found the answer to my last
> question: how to get unicode keyboard input on a console as user:
> kbd_mode -u
>
> I just tried this: create a file in lynx with a name with accented
> characters: works. But bookmark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>Lynx (-cur) on Etch: I don't get any characters with accents ! They are
>>left out and then another character might get lost as well, for instance
>>on the bottom of google.com there is a copyright-sign and then '2006',
>>which results
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Links2 is probably much better at rendering webpages, tables, frames,
> css, even java-script is seems to do.
In terms of the original posting however - I just checked to see if it
had changed - links2 (like links, elinks), doesn't have a way to display
UTF-8. It does
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:34:14AM +0100, Jasper wrote:
>>
>> Both are version 2.8.5 rel.1 . The one at my ISP gives messages in
>> english, the one here in dutch. In a console it is the same problem.
>>
>> Any hints ?
>>
>> In a way I suspect it is not a lynx problem,
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 16:24:04 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>
>> > for developers to contribute. Someone can make such a statement without
>> > being an aspiring contributor himself. I
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for developers to contribute. Someone can make such a statement without
> being an aspiring contributor himself. I see neither a "promise" nor a
> "lie" in what he writes.
The lie was this: stating that it was not allowed to happen.
Anytime the topic c
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:03:01PM +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > One of the reasons why there was not a modularized source tree in
>> > XFree86 was that it was not
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the reasons why there was not a modularized source tree in
> XFree86 was that it was not allowed to happen. No? So XFree86 never
> could have it, while Xorg now does. And this lead to XFree86 development
> being harder than Xorg. To me this is a diffe
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Presumably you're using the options for telling xterm to use UTF-8 encoding
>> as well. But I don't see any details of that here, so it could be a problem.
> For
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XTERM
> Xterm by itself also seems to be able, and if I set the use of fonts
> in .Xdefaults by e.g.
> XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
> it can print most characters. For example the results of echo -e
Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are those hard-coded commands you're talking about? That's
> important because terminal emulators recognize their resources based
> upon their names. So if you define resources for "XTerm" (note the
> capitals), but you start the program as "xterm," it
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> How do you run tail and not have it fold the output?
> Since these apps treat the screen as a "glass teletype", that would
> be a function of the console or xterm, not of tail.
> As to how to modify the console, though...
man con
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Back in 2003 make menuconfig always segfaulted unless I used a ncurses
> tarball and used that:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/12/msg04950.html
> Now, 3 years later, it still happens:
...and still (google says I commented in Sun, F
Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> - Horizontal borders in Aptitude (e.g. in the search or quit
>>> dialogs) become '?' characters.
>>
>> This is more interesting. Those dashes look like they're double-width
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I meant recompiling ncurses, to get version 5.5. But I wonder if Apple
> modified the ncurses 5.4, because tic didn't behave like under Debian.
> For instance, xterm-* were installed under the 78 subdirectory instead
> of the x subdirectory.
hex 0x78 i
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are
>> > buggy.
>>
>> hmm -
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You should set TERM to 'macosx'. If things don't work, just fix them
> in the terminfo data and rerun tic.
that's more/less what I was advising.
> Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are
> buggy.
hmm - to the best of my
Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)...
tin doesn't post to email (I often followup with the same information)
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> First off thank you for such a helpful response!
>>> "pret
Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get OS X 10.4.7's Terminal.app to play nice when ssh'ing
> into my Debian Etch box.
> I've run `infocmp -L > xterm-color' on my Mac (I have Terminal.app set
> to report xterm-color), and compiled the result on my Debian box with
> the f
Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16/06/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ctrl+ displays xterm's "VT Fonts" menu.
> That doesn't work for TrueType fonts in XTerm. It switches to "fixed"
> ot something.
no - If you've set the -fa option for a valid font, xterm displays in that
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I posted to this list a while back, I have had to abandon xterm in favor
> of gnome-terminal because some aspect of the xorg upgrade made the xterm
> font unchangeable.
oh. Which bug report is that?
(Debian has a bug-reporting system, which doesn't seem
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:34:13PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> whiptail doesn't appear to support gpm (only a subset of xterm mouse).
> Hi,
> have you investigated twin and libtw0. Its curses based and supports a
> mo
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Installed libctk-3.0.25. The debian package doesn't work but the tarball
>>> does: is the *console tool kit*. No longer suppor
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>Magnus Therning wrote:
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Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am 2006-05-05 06:50:41, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anybody knows of a dialog package version (Displays user-friendly dialog
>> boxes from shell scripts) that has mouse support?
> Yes, "dialog". I was realy surprised as I was able
> to kli
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Installed libctk-3.0.25. The debian package doesn't work but the tarball
> does: is the *console tool kit*. No longer supported though and no docs
> at all. Is supposed to be a console API interface to gtk. Has sound support.
I don't recall noticing
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I'd like to stay out of X. I found something called Ndialog that
> supports the mouse.
It's interesting, but whenever I've run its demos, it doesn't take long
to get a core dump.
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Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but it seems from an strace of xterm that /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color
> is no longer checked... I looked through the last 30 days of package
> changelogs and didn't see this noted... bug report time?
If so, that would be against the X libraries, ra
Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "dosemu" package includes the font that you want -- the very same
> one that came on the IBM-PC, with all the line-drawing glyphs and such.
vga
iirc, there's only one small size for it though (fine if you're used to
running X in 640x800 mode, but not
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to use the console, 'man consolechars'. 'apropos console' for
> other relevant commands.
console_codes
But its description of character sets is so vague that it could be deleted
without losing information.
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