On 2011-03-14 21:27:29 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > > Is it a bug in rxvt-unicode, ncurses-base (which provides > > > /lib/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode, but perhaps following recommendations > > > by rxvt-unicode developers) or screen (which sends "is2")? > > Almost certainly screen - ncurses programs do the right thing and don't > reset the terminal *after* configuring it.
screen doesn't reset the terminal after configuring it. This can be seen with xterm and gnome-terminal. > I don't know what screen tries to accomplish, but if it wants a clean > state, then it needs to output all the intiialisation sequences *before* > configuring the terminal, as obviously configuration can be lost when > intiialisaing the terminal. Perhaps. It seems to make sense. However the terminfo(5) man page doesn't document that it should be done in this order. > And if screen outputs is2 but not the other sequences as required by > terminfo, that's an even bigger wtf. There is no reason to do so, and that > *will* break things. I don't know what screen does exactly, but tput smcup tput init tput rmcup works in xterm, but not in rxvt-unicode. This may be the problem with screen. > > > Even if one considers that screen does something bad and should be > > > fixed, the incompatibility between rxvt-unicode and other terminals > > > (xterm, gnome-terminal) can be annoying. > > Hmm, which incompatibility is there? See above. Unless the above sequence is incorrect... > "tput init" is the canonical way to bring your terminal into a clean > state after a curses program (or screen, which loves to crash...) > crashed. The change just implemented that. No, this is "tput reset" that brings the terminal into a clean state. "tput init" doesn't do that in at least two major terminals: xterm and gnome-terminal. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
