"T.E.Dickey" wrote: > > it's an faq (the alternate screen behavior) ... I wrote: > >I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm > >and rxvt where often the screen fails to be restored properly > >after running vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily > >restores the terminal screen after exiting. ...
As per the xterm FAQ, I've tried the XTerm*titeInhibit X resource. This seems to work around the issue well for xterm. However, rxvt does not support this feature. Setting the resource XTerm.termName: xterm1 (xterm1 is from the ncurses-term pkg) seems to work around the problem for both xterm and rxvt. However, you lose the debian term 'features' (at least Home and End keys, what else?). ncurses-term has about a bazillion variations on xterm and rxvt, I've not tried them all. Given the above, I am led to believe this must be a result of dud Debian terminfo descriptions? I've just mailed the ncurses-base maintainer, hopefully he may be able to shed some light... The xterm FAQ discussion re. termcap/terminfo modifications is unclear to me (I know next to nothing about terminfo databases), and it seems the 'untic' program is not present in Debian 2.1. tic is in ncurses-bin, but I can find no reference to untic. Can tic 'untic' given appropriate arguments? Regards, Ben Low
