On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:16:45AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > i've found some snags in gnome-terminal (1.4.0.6 under woody) > that haven't interfered with my windo~1 PuTTY experiences... > > - some items are not blanked properly; that is, when new text at > the bottom scrolls text off the top, artifacts appear to remain > that should have scrolled off. sometimes refreshing (^L in vi) > makes it better, sometimes not. editing can get quite hairy > with this snag.
xterm seems to work properly here. > - my prompt includes escape sequences to hilite user@host:path > and gnome-terminal gets all confused on cursor positioning, > particularly when using word-delete to edit the command line. > (i'd expect the linux console tohave similar conniptions, but > it doesn't!) pooh. xterm also gets confused with the escape-sequence prompt string -- even when i break to a new line after all the fancy color-setting and xterm-window-title-setting sequences, i word-delete and *boik* my cursor is suddenly at column 70 or so. # tcsh (i know, i know) set USER=`whoami` if ( $LOGNAME == $USER ) then set COLOR=44 else set COLOR=45 endif if ( $USER == 'root' ) then set COLOR=41 endif set prompt="%{]0;%}%n: %~%{[%}$COLOR%{;37;1m%}%n%{: [%}%{37;40m%}%~%{[0m%}\n%# " which looks like <bluebg>will: <bold>/var/www/puz/pix/runt/2002july10<plain> > and if i enter this text at the command line and then word-delete it, the cursor sometimes even winds up on the previous (second-from-bottom) line! (or maybe it's not xterm or gnome-terminal -- perhaps it's tcsh?) ideas? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #117 from Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Here's how you THAW MESSAGES FROZEN VIA EXIM: Just cd to the /var/spool/exim/msglog directory, and run # exim -Mt * That should thaw any message that's pending. For more dire action, you can try # exim -Mrm <message-id-here> to actually obliterate a troublesome message. See exim.org (or /usr/share/doc/exim/manual.html/*) for more details. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]