On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 10:09:00PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> I've recently started using urxvt instead of xterm everywhere,
> in major part because xterm was losing glyphs, and after a few months
> of not figuring out why (and asking the guys in charge of X11 and drm
> I didn't get any useful answer for my setup) I decided to switch.
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>
> One minor peeve (@afresh1): it would be swell if the perl libraries were
> better synched with the ports tree. I started with the urxvt perl flavor,
> but unfortunately, bad perl synch wrt libraries left me with no usable
> terminal so for now, I'm back with the base system.
>
> I'm pretty sure the requirements are a bit too stringent and it should be
> possible to get back to something that works without having to switch back
> to xterm temporarily.
>
> Baring that, maybe it's possible to make urxvt+perl "soft fail" to "plain"
> urxvt in case it can't load the perl runtime ?
I don't know anything about urxvt or its perl support. I'd need a lot
more detail about what the failure mode is to be able to consider a
solution.
I expect it to break when perl is upgraded and not sure there is any way
around that, other then having the urxvt folks add that "soft fail"
feature.
l8rZ,
--
andrew
Software doesn't do what you want it to do, it does what you tell it do.
-- Stefan G. Weichinger.
