Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-11 Thread dickey
On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 7:50:04 AM UTC-4, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, tomas wrote: > > > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window. > > > The property you are

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-03 Thread dickey
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Try running script if the system is already installed then run each of > the problem commands then type exit. You'll get a file called > typescript which is ansi text that probably will get through the spam > filters if you

Re: using less in a bash script, screen blanking, alternate screen

2013-09-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 nrrmc # line

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 majority of

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com 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/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html that's not what I

Re: finch key-binding doesnt work

2012-10-12 Thread dickey
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 other

Re: finch key-binding doesnt work

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 other

Re: console_codes question (was Accented Characters - How to type)

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Jan 30, 11:40 am, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 graphics) with a

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
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

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
/configuration/.Xresources yes... (I noticed this a while back, and it's on my to-do list - appears to be due to an xorg change, since it doesn't happen on my older systems). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
separated by a single space. Can't see any reason from the sed manpage why this should be and can't locate my awk sed book (may have left it at last job.) ls -1 |sed '1,2d' gives me a single column. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
-ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke However, since I see a difference between bash and tcsh, the issue may not in some other place (don't known...) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
provides a non-POSIX extension for nulls), or mawk. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 li...@xdna.net 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

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
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... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to install updated terminfo entry in home directory?

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
describes TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS environment variables which override ncurses' search for terminal descriptions. Setting TERMINFO, you can override tic's target for installing updated terminal descriptions. infocmp provides a copy of a terminal description which can be edited. -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
is using a wildcard in the font resource: XTerm*font: 10x20 This would work: XTerm*vt100.font: 10x20 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpheNKS2FJY5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mouse and gpm

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 xterm (which is a binary

Re: mouse and gpm

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
? eg. work like the page up and page down keys, maybe not as bigger chunks though... Thought it could be cool to scroll emacs buffers and the like with a mouse under text mode? Is this possible with gpm? I think the next/new ncurses will allow this sort of thing. Maybe Thomas Dickey has

Re: help with mlterm

2009-01-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
there are always things like ls which ignore termcap/terminfo). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpUoN3wM69y9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 to have a setting to reject all cookies

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 disabled. The file has 3569 lines, but only

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
are comments which document lynx.cfg They can be formatted into a hypertext document (which doesn't appear to be part of the Debian package). There's an example here: http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2-8-6/lynx_help/cattoc.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
it? [1]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html gzip and deflate are different flavors (lynx can do it - provided that the server labels them correctly - some servers don't). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpiwGaaQK8sB.pgp

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
oldlynx -trace -trace-mask=8 . and (quitting lynx), see in your home directory Lynx.trace, containing info such as this: LYReadCFG COLOR:6:brightcyan:black lynx_chg_color(color=6, fg=14, bg=0) lynx_map_color(6) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
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/lynxcfg22579 is not available. TD That's mime-encoding

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 path and just run it... $ oldlynx ./oldlynx: line 9: 3D/tmp

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
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, it'll construct a style from TD the COLOR

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 color_style. in fact, the only thing in the entire

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
$$ trap rm -f $my_cfg 0 1 2 5 15 rm -f $my_cfg echo DEFAULT_COLORS:off $my_cfg if test -n $LYNX_CFG ; then echo include:$LYNX_CFG $my_cfg fi echo COLOR_STYLE: $my_cfg echo NESTED_TABLES:off $my_cfg LYNX_CFG=$my_cfg export LYNX_CFG unset LYNX_LSS ${LYNX_PROG-lynx} $@ -- Thomas E. Dickey http

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
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's a (Debian-specific?) bug in ncurses

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
WINCH. I took a look, but didn't see one... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
... If you're running under su, it hits really really often. If you're su'd, signals generally are blocked. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpKcP5jgXaiR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
, mlterm will be never run stable. before this happen Thomas Dickey has added bidi support to XTerm... :-) I revisit it periodically. There was a patch (I do have a copy), but not useful due to licensing - it relied on GPL libraries. Supposedly the library license was changed to LGPL, but read

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
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Re: lynx configuration

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
of that file). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 2005; I'm sure that there were X terminals in 2005 that could handle

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
. xterm's supported UTF-8 since 1999: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html (likewise, it's been possible to change the encoding) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
various characters. That's the point of the uxterm script - to make it simple. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vi issue in etch

2007-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
to use but didn't know I wasn't, hence the apt-get install vim made it all good! :) (people lacking experience tend to make blanket judgements/recommendations). ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
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) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
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) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
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) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
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) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: how get colour mutt when ssh from OBSD?

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
color. Does anyone have any clues on this? Conventional applications (excluding hardcoded stuff like GNU ls) uses terminfo/termcap data to determine what the terminal can do. You should report a bug in the applications that don't. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: xterm won't start

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
4.5.99.2 * ignore error in the I/O initialization that tries to set the tty to 7-bit input for the case where eightBitInput resource is false (Debian #298551). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
so just configure it. right - noting that it's not _always_ possible, it's nice to not have the design choices hardcoded. (and if I do change some feature, it should be not difficult for the user to change it back ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
6515 15 0 5788 2852 - S+ pts/1 0:00 xterm -sl 24 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
buffer. ...what would you regard as a convenient way to flip back/forth? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpWEWjE6hT3X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xterm hanging

2007-06-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
) ' Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors xterm window cannot accept any input. Any ideas? see ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/xterm-226b.patch.gz -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xterm hanging

2007-06-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
, so the packager could disable it. I'll look into a less failure-prone way to supply the feature... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

2007-05-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
always used the Ctrl-left/middle/right mouse It's a compile-time option (useful, but has some limitations when resizing the window - I use it most of the time). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
been said) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 was pretty awful. But at the same time rxvt would

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-17 11:03:57 -, 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, and zsh: for i in {1..3}; echo $i On my 400

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
the same code running remotely). rxvt happens to not use this defective function (actually it's ifdef'd in the code with a misleading comment regarding the issue). For large scrollbacks, e.g., more than 10,000 lines, xterm has its own problems. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
- http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
may want to suppress the padding, e.g., man ncurses and see the comment regarding NCURSES_NO_PADDING). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
like lynx ;-). The (e)links(2) flavors do some of that stuff (not as much as lynx(*)). (*) well lynx doesn't do samba urls, so it didn't get noticed on bugtraq recently... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
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. Other versions of linux have somehow Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
were probably trying to get xterm to use a specific set of TrueType fonts, but having problems deciding how to specify the font (using the -fa option is the usual issue). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
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). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
(it requires reading the manpage, or using the uxterm script). xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8 There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
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Re: best terminal emulator for emacs -nw?

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
modifyOtherKeys escape sequence - see notes starting here: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_216 Anyway - he shouldn't _have_ to use ESC (with xterm). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
release of gnome-terminal produces new and interesting bugs). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:19:34AM -, 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's message. Marc never provided why he

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
mean much to the GNOME devs? googling on gnome regression does show a lot of interesting comments, but I don't see any that give me a different impression. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
it? He stated that he had. Perhaps when your reading comprehension improves a little beyond bouncing email around, you will enlighten us on why gnome-terminal is really doing a _good_ job as a clone of xterm. (Your webpage doesn't work very well with Opera ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
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Re: Lynx on Etch ( Ready ? )

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
not what one would want). Anyway, I can go ahead for the moment. Thanks again // Jasper. no problem -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lynx on Etch ( next step )

2006-12-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
be a little less cumbersome to make lynx display as expected in xterm (non-UTF-8) and uxterm (UTF-8). However - lynx doesn't accept _keyboard_ input in UTF-8 (something that I'd like to do - between fixing bugs ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Lynx versus Links2 ( was: Lynx on Etch )

2006-12-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
have 7-bit approximations (copied from lynx ;-). I seem to recall some recent bug reports for elinks that hint that the developers are working on that (though the nature of the reports makes it plain that it's far from usable). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: Lynx on Etch

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
). The current version of lynx is 2.8.6 It's available at http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/ 2.8.7 Development patches: http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:03:01PM +, 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 allowed to happen. No? So XFree86 never could have it, while

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
, invariably it was from people who were not going to do the work, but wanted someone else to do it for them. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 16:24:04 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Florian Kulzer 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

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
, a major difference, regardless which version of Xorg has it. oh. Then we'll expect to see some significant X development from _you_ in the near future, demonstrating that your comment was informed. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
\204\304\211\320\257'. (All shamelessly stolen from pages found with google.) 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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 xterm I use the default settings for sid|etch|sarge

Re: window manager not picking up Xresources?

2006-09-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
work. no (see the X manpage's discussion of resources). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to tail w/o folding the output?

2006-08-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
is output. +aw This option indicates that auto-wraparound should not be allowed. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make menuconfig segfault

2006-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
2005 11:20 am), the only way to proceed is to run menuconfig with a debugger. I guess it's harder now - the more recent versions have lxdialog loaded as part of another program - but still doable. valgrind and ltrace also would be useful here... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
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. I have a hunch that your locale on Debian is set to a UTF-8

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -, 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 - to the best of my knowledge, the ncurses that come with Mac OS X

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
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Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
in ncurses since 2001. There were some minor fixes to those early this year - see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
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! pretty garbled could be more than one thing

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
Linux instead? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
in that TrueType font. Selecting default, huge, etc., from the VT Fonts menu makes xterm request a different size for the TrueType font. There's a checkbox on xterm's VT Fonts menu which can be used to turn the TrueType font off/on. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
to read random news groups). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:34:13PM -, 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 mouse but I think it maybe dead upstream. I

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
this one before. Here's some commentary on it: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/45570 (summary: Linux-specific, no documentation, unsupported...) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
under sarge with my mouse. It works on the console and under X with a XTerm. yes, it's supposed to work, since ncurses 5.5 provides a gpm interface which works around packaging problems with gpm. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
, that was an important requirement missing form your original email :-) Another option maybe? whiptail whiptail doesn't appear to support gpm (only a subset of xterm mouse). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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