On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package > > > manager. Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have > > > just looked in my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and firefox-real. > > > So I have experimented. Firefox-esr is the one aptitude > > > installed, and is Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, and is the > > > one I installed. I have both in my menu, clearly labelled > > > Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let aptitude do its thing. It has > > > left life simple. > > > > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and > > will be until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the > > whole screen instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the > > screen real estate. And it been that disaster since I first saw it > > 18 years ago. > > As usual, your rant is in need of some explanation as to exactly > what your problem is. > Basically, when you back up, or close a text reader, it doesn't clean up to a clean screen. Its easier to quit it, and restart it than it is to regain a usable screen display.
> Cheers, > David. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
