On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:42:15PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:33:13PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > > I am using Gnome Terminal mostly. I do not seem to have the problem > > with xterm itself, but got the same with aterm when I set TERM to xterm > > instead of it's rxvt default. > > > > So for the moment I do TERM=rxvt when I launch a terminal as a work-around. > > Oho! That would have been a good piece of information to have this > morning; sorry I forgot to ask. You were only talking about xterm.
Yes, sorry... one has xterm (the mode/terminfo) and xterm (the program). But I tested with aterm as well. > The sequence it is choking on is ESC (. This shouldn't be there; > tonight's mirror pulse will distribute libncurses5 5.4-6 for your > architecture, and after that things should start to work again. > However, gnome-terminal may want to investigate the display bug further > to improve compatibility with xterm. If you can confirm that the new > ncurses library fixes the problem for now, I'll reassign this bug. Confirmed, it is resolved, many thanks! > BTW, the reason you see your prompt twice is probably because you have > precmd() and preexec() set to massage the terminal's title bar. ^]]0; > to ^G is a title string. Duh, of course. Forget I ever mentioned it. Thanks! Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, The Netherlands | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
