"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian > laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm > the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the > cursor. For example, if I fire up dselect and I start moving down the > list of choices when I get to the bottom, [Q]uit, and keep scrolling > [Q]uit appears to move to the top of the screen. A similiar phenomena > happens when I "vi" a file in the terminal or do a "man > <something>". Debian seems to get confused about how to handle the > terminal. In the case of man I get almost continuous underlining and > reverse-video in areas of the man page that shouldn't have this type > of highlighting. [snip]
For those of you interested I found a bug report dealing with this. It's #54833 and is filed against libncurses4. I still don't know how it was determined to be a libncurses4 problem, but at least it's known and in the Debian system. Hopefully that means it'll be fixed. Gary
