Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-11 Thread dickey
On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 7:50:04 AM UTC-4, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, tomas wrote: > > > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window. > > > The property you are look

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-03 Thread dickey
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Try running script if the system is already installed then run each of > the problem commands then type exit. You'll get a file called > typescript which is ansi text that probably will get through the spam > filters if you inclu

Re: using less in a bash script, screen blanking, alternate screen

2013-09-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sunday, September 8, 2013 4:00:02 AM UTC-4, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > OK, I have the following script (reduced, just enough to demonstrate > > the problem): > --- test.sh --- > #!/bin/bash > cmd="apt-cache search debian-installer | sort | egrep --color=always -i > debian-installer" > #tput nrrm

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that > > > it's roughly comparable to rxvt > > > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:30:01 AM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape > > sequences, which are based on ecma-48 > > > > I'd extend that to suggest that most terminal emulators support the > ma

Re: finch key-binding doesnt work

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Friday, October 12, 2012 10:50:01 AM UTC-4, houkensjtu wrote: > I installed finch by apt-get install finch. > > Unfortunately all key-binding doesn't work in Xterm. > > Since xterm is the most frequently used term for me, it's quite annoying. I > found on debian bug report log that also othe

Re: finch key-binding doesnt work

2012-10-12 Thread dickey
On Friday, October 12, 2012 10:50:01 AM UTC-4, houkensjtu wrote: > > I installed finch by apt-get install finch. > > Unfortunately all key-binding doesn't work in Xterm. > > Since xterm is the most frequently used term for me, it's quite annoying. I > found on debian bug report log that also ot

Re: console_codes question (was Accented Characters - How to type)

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Jan 30, 11:40 am, "Thomas H. George" wrote: > The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts > available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. > Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 > graphics) with a user-defined character

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Help, whenever I close firefox, gimp, etc. (emacs is OK though.) I have to switch windows back and forth before I can continue typing into the window I am left starting at. Else my keystrokes are ignored

Re: have to switch windows back and forth after firefox, gimp, etc. exit

2010-11-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
/configuration/.Xresources yes... (I noticed this a while back, and it's on my to-do list - appears to be due to an xorg change, since it doesn't happen on my older systems). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
the entire directory listing, each item separated by a single space. Can't see any reason from the sed manpage why this should be and can't locate my awk & sed book (may have left it at last job.) ls -1 |sed '1,2d' gives me a single column. -- Thomas E. Dickey htt

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
r -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke However, since I see a difference between bash and tcsh, the issue may not in some other place (don't known...) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://i

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: however, Debian's packagage maintainer for mawk has not responded to any of package... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: /proc/pid/cmdline usually has ASCII NUL separated fields, which awk does not split, so usually you have to use xargs -0. I noticed some cases where

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
#x27;re using gawk (which provides a non-POSIX extension for nulls), or mawk. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to install updated terminfo entry in home directory?

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
a terminal description which can be edited. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
e class of UXTerm. That's likely - OP is using a wildcard in the font resource: XTerm*font: 10x20 This would work: XTerm*vt100.font: 10x20 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpheNKS2FJY5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mouse and gpm

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:20:12AM +0100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are > > doable with the extension I added a few years ago, and have tested in &

Re: mouse and gpm

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
t; I think the next/new ncurses will allow this sort of thing. Maybe Thomas > Dickey has more info. He seems to magically pop in if xterm or lynx is > mentioned in a post. :) google (though as time passes, it's more and more spotty in its coverage) I hadn't really thought about gpm

Re: help with mlterm

2009-01-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
to not support bold font (though there are always things like "ls" which ignore termcap/terminfo). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpUoN3wM69y9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:20:07AM +0100, lee wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:46:26PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:30:09AM +0100, lee wrote: > > > The web page looks good --- but it seems to tell me that it isn't > > > possible

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:30:09AM +0100, lee wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:07:50PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:40:07AM +0100, lee wrote: > > > Hm, there seem to be lots of options in lynx.cfg, but almost > > > everything is disabl

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
e > about lynx.cfg. Most of those "3569 lines" are comments which document lynx.cfg They can be formatted into a hypertext document (which doesn't appear to be part of the Debian package). There's an example here: http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2-8-6/lynx_help/cattoc.h

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
that it > > should work. > > Well, I didn't set it ... It can depend on the web server[1] --- but > can lynx do it? > > > [1]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html gzip and deflate are different flavors (lynx can do it - provided that the server

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
ou should be able to do oldlynx -trace -trace-mask=8 . and (quitting lynx), see in your home directory Lynx.trace, containing info such as this: LYReadCFG COLOR:6:brightcyan:black lynx_chg_color(color=6, fg=14, bg=0) lynx_map_color(6) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:50:19PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TD> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > >> Configuration file "3D3D/tmp/lynxcfg

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TD> You don't have to run it with root: "oldlynx" is a script that calls lynx. > TD> So you could put "oldlynx" in your

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:10:07AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TD> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:10:17PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > TD> If lynx thinks there's no color-style file,

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:10:17PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TD> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:00:21PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > >> there's nothing in there about col

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
"include:$LYNX_CFG" >>$my_cfg fi echo "COLOR_STYLE:" >>$my_cfg echo "NESTED_TABLES:off" >>$my_cfg LYNX_CFG=$my_cfg export LYNX_CFG unset LYNX_LSS ${LYNX_PROG-lynx} "$@" -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpxAc2BnACfp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:29:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:20:14PM +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > IIRC, there

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
omped with extreme prejudice... > > If you're running under su, it hits really really often. If you're su'd, signals generally are blocked. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpKcP5jgXaiR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
em to find it in the > > output. However I don't know what exactly to look for. > > IIRC, there's a (Debian-specific?) bug in ncurses regarding WINCH. I took a look, but didn't see one... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
gt;> > >> > (The verb "try" is appropriate here, as mlterm is a bit buggy). >> >> Hmmm, I do not remember since when, but maybe since Potato? >> >> It seems, "mlterm" will be never run stable. before this >> happen Thomas

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
aceName" resource) is not given. The default uses the bitmap fonts. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lynx configuration

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
ee the comment at the top of that file). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> IIRC there was a situation a few years ago where you had to install a >>> Unicode-enabled xterm, pass "-u", or both. Sarge dates to

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
font and switch to UTF-8, making it recognize but not display various characters. That's the point of the uxterm script - to make it simple. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
't > know if the default xterm did. xterm's supported UTF-8 since 1999: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html (likewise, it's been possible to change the encoding) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: vi issue in etch

2007-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
fference, vim is what I "meant" to use but didn't know I wasn't, hence the > apt-get install vim made it all good! :) (people lacking experience tend to make blanket judgements/recommendations). ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-is

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-is

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-is

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-is

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-is

Re: how get colour mutt when ssh from OBSD?

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
ine. That's because Debian's "xterm" entry is set to correspond to xterm, which does color. > Does anyone have any clues on this? Conventional applications (excluding hardcoded stuff like GNU ls) uses terminfo/termcap data to determine what the terminal can do. You should re

Re: xterm won't start

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
true I addressed this in Patch #201 - 2005/4/21 - XFree86 4.5.99.2 * ignore error in the I/O initialization that tries to set the tty to 7-bit input for the case where eightBitInput resource is false (Debian #298551). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp:/

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
probably never going to like it. But it is configurable > in the personal environment so just configure it. right - noting that it's not _always_ possible, it's nice to not have the design choices hardcoded. (and if I do change some feature, it should be not difficult for the us

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
ing that it's a detail of the terminal description rather than the terminal emulator). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
+ pts/1 0:00 aterm -sl 24 0 1001 6516 6515 15 0 5788 2852 - S+ pts/1 0:00 xterm -sl 24 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
to > the alternate screen buffer. ...what would you regard as a convenient way to flip back/forth? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpWEWjE6hT3X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xterm hanging

2007-06-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
ection(SELECT, CUT_BUFFER0) ' > Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors > xterm window cannot accept any input. Any ideas? see ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/xterm-226b.patch.gz -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To U

Re: xterm hanging

2007-06-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
#x27;s an optional compile-time feature, so the packager could disable it. I'll look into a less failure-prone way to supply the feature... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

2007-05-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
ometry size. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#tiny_menus -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I >> > ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that w

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
d rxvt running 5 times slower than xterm. (though why someone realistically would do "ls -l /usr/bin" hasn't been said) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
eless about this if > it's possible. I have always used the Ctrl-left/middle/right mouse It's a compile-time option (useful, but has some limitations when resizing the window - I use it most of the time). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-17 11:03:57 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> For "large" scrollbacks, e.g., more than 10,000 lines, >> xterm has its own problems. > Hmm... yes. I've tried with xterm using a 20,000-line scrollback, >

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
X libraries (there's no excuse for a _local_ connection to run 15 times slower than the same code running remotely). rxvt happens to not use this defective function (actually it's ifdef'd in the code with a misleading comment regarding the issue). For "large" scrollb

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's not good. THat means X is ignoring those keystrokes and passing > them through to Xterm. Fortunately, "X" ignores keystrokes, so you're able to use your keyboard. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invi

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
s no output. It helps to read the documentation - http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is someone who reads this list by the name of Thomas Dickey who > seems to maintain the Xterm package, I suspect that he could provide an > answer. Actually I maintain the xterm program (and others), but no packages. -- Thomas

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
/bright on black? vt100 (noting that the "vt100" terminal description refers to a real hardware terminal that required padding, one may want to suppress the padding, e.g., "man ncurses" and see the comment regarding NCURSES_NO_PADDING). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
ings I've found interesting when comparing browsers: It seems that > only Lynx supports viewing a gzip file eg README.gz. Only Lynx and Actually w3m does that too (also .bz2, .Z files like lynx ;-). The (e)links(2) flavors do some of that stuff (not as much as lynx(*)). (*) well lynx d

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sarge and etch offer two packages containing xterm - one of which > calls itself something like XTERM(unicode), except not quite that. Perhaps you're thinking of rxvt-unicode (which is not xterm). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisib

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
ely, it appears that you were probably trying to get xterm to use a specific set of TrueType fonts, but having problems deciding how to specify the font (using the -fa option is the usual issue). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >> H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Arlie Stephens wrote: >> >>>> I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, >>>> notably my email client mutt. Othe

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
a useful bug report) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
cult to get this > right. Try this: yawn (it requires reading the manpage, or using the uxterm script). xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8 There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ -- Thoma

Re: best terminal emulator for emacs -nw?

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
for him to start on. Even _newer_ xterm can do more. Perhaps some Emacs user will make a package using xterm's modifyOtherKeys escape sequence - see notes starting here: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_216 Anyway - he shouldn't _have_ to use ESC (with xterm

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
I guess the word regression doesn't mean much to the GNOME > devs? googling on "gnome regression" does show a lot of interesting comments, but I don't see any that give me a different impression. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:19:34AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> It appears you didn't read the whole thread (one's mentioned ;-). > I did. Jerome's single problem was mentioned in a reply to a reply to > Marc

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
e are older than your cited experience, but each release of gnome-terminal produces new and interesting bugs). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
no different than in Firefox. (Opera 8.52) ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/MenuProblem.png -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
erm. (Your webpage doesn't work very well with Opera ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lynx on Etch ( Ready ? )

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
s using the display charset for that (perhaps not what one would want). > Anyway, I can go ahead for the moment. > Thanks again // Jasper. no problem -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Lynx on Etch ( next step )

2006-12-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
Also see the option "Use locale-based character set", which (when set) overrides the Display Charset, and can be a little less cumbersome to make lynx display as expected in xterm (non-UTF-8) and uxterm (UTF-8). However - lynx doesn't accept _keyboard_ input in UTF-8 (something tha

Re: Lynx versus Links2 ( was: Lynx on Etch )

2006-12-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
8. It does have 7-bit approximations (copied from lynx ;-). I seem to recall some recent bug reports for elinks that hint that the developers are working on that (though the nature of the reports makes it plain that it's far from usable). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

Re: Lynx on Etch

2006-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
s based on the current release of lynx, rather than the previous one from early 2004). The current version of lynx is 2.8.6 It's available at http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/ 2.8.7 Development & patches: http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://i

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 16:24:04 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> > for developers to contribute. Someone can make such a statement without >> > being an aspiring contributor himself. I

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
lowed to happen. Anytime the topic came up, invariably it was from people who were not going to do the work, but wanted someone else to do it for them. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:03:01PM +, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > One of the reasons why there was not a modularized source tree in >> > XFree86 was that it was not

Re: xorg , xfree86?

2006-11-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
g. To me this is a differnce, a major difference, > regardless which version of Xorg has it. oh. Then we'll expect to see some significant X development from _you_ in the near future, demonstrating that your comment was informed. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://inv

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Presumably you're using the options for telling xterm to use UTF-8 encoding >> as well. But I don't see any details of that here, so it could be a problem. > For

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
he results of echo -e > "'\303\204\304\211\320\257'". (All shamelessly stolen from pages found > with google.) Presumably you're using the options for telling xterm to use UTF-8 encoding as well. But I don't see any details of that here, so it could be a probl

Re: window manager not picking up Xresources?

2006-09-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
), but you start the program as "xterm," it won't work. no (see the X manpage's discussion of resources). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to tail w/o folding the output?

2006-08-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
t the rightmost position of a line and text is output. +aw This option indicates that auto-wraparound should not be allowed. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: make menuconfig segfault

2006-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
ys I commented in Sun, Feb 6 2005 11:20 am), the only way to proceed is to run menuconfig with a debugger. I guess it's harder now - the more recent versions have lxdialog loaded as part of another program - but still doable. valgrind and ltrace also would be useful here... -- Thomas

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> - Horizontal borders in Aptitude (e.g. in the search or quit >>> dialogs) become '?' characters. >> >> This is more interesting. Those dashes look like they're double-width

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
since it only addresses the first character. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are >> > buggy. >> >> hmm -

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
you concerned with a specific bug, or is this just a suggestion to use Linux instead? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)... tin doesn't post to email (I often followup with the same information) > Thomas Dickey wrote: > First off thank you for such a helpful response! >>> "pret

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
ts that the backspace/delete settings don't match Debian). But it would be useful to have an accurate terminal description for Terminal. Supposedly we already have this - the nsterm entries that have been in ncurses since 2001. There were some minor fixes to those early this year - see

Re: Bitstream Vera size in XTerm

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
ve set the -fa option for a valid font, xterm displays in that TrueType font. Selecting default, huge, etc., from the VT Fonts menu makes xterm request a different size for the TrueType font. There's a checkbox on xterm's VT Fonts menu which can be used to turn the TrueType font o

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
ch doesn't seem to read random news groups). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:34:13PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> whiptail doesn't appear to support gpm (only a subset of xterm mouse). > Hi, > have you investigated twin and libtw0. Its curses based and supports a > mo

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Installed libctk-3.0.25. The debian package doesn't work but the tarball >>> does: is the *console tool kit*. No longer suppor

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
enity fits? >>>/M >> >>Well, I'd like to stay out of X. I found something called Ndialog that >>supports the mouse. > Ah, that was an important requirement missing form your original email > :-) > Another option maybe? whiptail whiptail doesn't

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
ot;. I was realy surprised as I was able > to klick around under sarge with my mouse. It works > on the console and under X with a XTerm. yes, it's supposed to work, since ncurses 5.5 provides a gpm interface which works around packaging problems with gpm. -- Thomas E. Dickey http:/

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
on't recall noticing this one before. Here's some commentary on it: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/45570 (summary: Linux-specific, no documentation, unsupported...) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- T

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