[Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
At some point gnome-terminal changed its strings for modified function-keys. I documented those in terminfo.src for ncurses 5.7 (they don't match xterm, of course). -- [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96676 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 259139] Re: Ncurses package does not contain libtinfo

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
The entrypoints for libinfo are part of ncurses (whether the ncurses library is installed as the two files is a decision made by the packager, and does not affect the ability of applications to use those entrypoints). Any build script which looks explicitly for libtinfo without first trying in t

[Bug 187866] Re: 'tput cols' give strange results

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
It's expected behavior - in the "80" case, stdout is redirected, so it's no longer a terminal. When this happens, the terminal initialization falls back to the terminfo settings. -- 'tput cols' give strange results https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187866 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 76618] Re: Contents LD_LIBRARY_PATH cleared by xterm

2009-05-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 10 May 2009, SimonX200 wrote: > The problem is solved by removing the s-flags from xterm. Why the hack > does a user application like xterm s-flags in the first place? xterm could be installed (and configured...) for systems that use setuid, setgid. setuid is rarely used now (was mainly

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2008-07-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Izzy wrote: > Just wanted to report that the problem disappeared for me after a dist- > upgrade to Hardy (via Gutsy, of course). So maybe the bug is silently > solved? No bug here - it's either a fix in gnome-terminal, or the application using it, e.g., vim. > > -- > [feist

Re: [Bug 230919] Re: Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be > fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately. yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the package page and it's not there). > >

Re: [Bug 230919] Re: Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote: >> >>> According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be >>> fixed in that versi

Re: [Bug 230919] Re: Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

2008-09-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 16:46:40 -, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote: >>> >>>> According to

Re: [Bug 408496] [NEW] set XTerm*utf8Title to true

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Imre Péntek wrote: > Public bug reported: > > by default XTerm*utf8Title is set to false, however the byte sequences > that will change the title bar are actually sent out in utf8, so I > suggest to hard-wire this setting to true. Check the attached screenshot > also. Thank you

[Bug 407153] Re: ANSI codes for saving/restoring attributes not supported

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
For the record, the vtansi.htm page (originally by Robert M. Free - though I don't see his name on that copy) contains several technical errors - citing it in a bug report is a nonstarter. In this instance, it happens to say something which is relevant, but still not completely true. In particul

Re: [Bug 408496] Re: set XTerm*utf8Title to true

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Imre Péntek wrote: > Hello, the Ubuntu system generally is utf8 based. That 'Zenék' directory was > created by the installer (when I created my user account), and it really > means Music. So changing the setting I suggest you to change would only mean > that XTerm wouldn't b

Re: [Bug 408496] Re: set XTerm*utf8Title to true

2009-08-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Imre Péntek wrote: > Well, I reported an Ubuntu bug: > Where did you find the bug?: > Distribution: Ubuntu > package xterm I maintain xterm upstream, and check bugs in various packages, since as a rule, packagers do not bother to notify upstream. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://i

[Bug 69724] Re: Mawk does not support Posix character classes in expressions

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
One problem with the patch is that it's hardcoded, doesn't use the locale information. I've written an alternate form which is in the 20090727 version of mawk at http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ -- Mawk does not support Posix character classes in expressions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 321890] Re: hex print in mawk does not work on ubuntu 64bit

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
It doesn't appear to be related to 64-bits. The values correspond to the first character of the parameters. Incidentally, mawk's behavior matches awk's (perhaps gawk's behavior is an extension). -- hex print in mawk does not work on ubuntu 64bit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321890 You receiv

[Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Regarding comment #11 and following - xterm is configurable. I suggest that he read the documentation and customize it. (This is not even a wishlist item, since it's a problem with the user's understanding of the program). -- Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh https://bugs.launch

[Bug 364474] Re: Jaunty: no icon in the title menu of xterm

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
The xterm source package provides suitable icons, which the Ubuntu packager could install. -- Jaunty: no icon in the title menu of xterm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 378668] Re: Cursor in terminal behaves badly with special characters present

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
>From the description, it sounds as if the problem is in bash. -- Cursor in terminal behaves badly with special characters present https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378668 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 320958] Re: xterm renders some unicode characters incorrectly when using colors (or bold?)

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Whether a character shows up as a box or not depends on whether the font contains the given glyph. xterm has separate normal/bold font settings, and (though it can be configured to use overstriking rather than a bold font) will choose to use the bold font for bold text. By the way, on my Debian/t

Re: [Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bernhard wrote: > @Thomas: I have since configured my terminal via shell settings. The > desired behaviour should be default though, especially for "out-of-the- > box" Ubuntu. Doing that would break existing applications (those that use the terminal description from ncurses a

[Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Near the end of this section, there's a table showing the codes sent by xterm for different modifiers: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#PC-Style Function Keys Back to the original report - A "3" is sent for an "alt" key, a "5" for a control key. That's not changed in upstre

[Bug 26603] Re: String indexes are inconsistent with other awks

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
no - as Aharon Robbins pointed out (and X/Open): substr(s, m[, n ]) Return the at most n-character substring of s that begins at position m, numbering from 1. If n is omitted, or if n specifies more characters than are left in the string, the length of the substring shall be limited by the leng

[Bug 400409] Re: RS is readonly

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
mawk does care - but it's not accepting a explicit null-character. I've added a fix for the next snapshot of mawk. -- RS is readonly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400409 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > Also I just found that xterm sends slightly different codes for > Shift+F1...F4, so this myxterm.ti is also for xterm: > > xterm|X11 terminal emulator with correct kf-sequences, This would be for xterm with modifyFunctionKeys:0 I made a list in xter

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > I'd like to second steviant's request. For a long time this bug forced > me to use konsole instead of gnome-terminal, just for ability to press > Shift+F4. Unfortunately with konsole Shift+Left/Shift+Right don't work > (which work under gnome-terminal

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-10-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > Thomas, I don't seem to understand you. I just grabbed and compiled > terminfo.src you gave and while it helped with xterm (except that it's > just like with my previous attempts, Shift+F2 starts a new file in mc > instead of Shift+F4) it didn't work

[Bug 124254] Re: [gutsy] xterm .desktop file places it in Applications -> System menu

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
It's up to the packager (just in case someone thought it should go upstream). There are no standards on the menus. -- [gutsy] xterm .desktop file places it in Applications -> System menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

Re: [Bug 72530] Re: meta key (alt key) combinations don't work in xterm

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > I get M-x on gutsy, could you try if it works for there? > > ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Low > Status: Confirmed => Incomplete I don't have gutsy. I maintain xterm, and was pointing out that the resource settings were

[Bug 128136] Re: uxterm man page has a typo

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
That file is maintained in Debian (I don't recall if it's licensed so I could incorporate it in xterm). -- uxterm man page has a typo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
Agree: gnome-terminal has never emulated all of xterm's control sequences, and it is unlikely that it ever will. That's why there is a separate terminfo entry "gnome" to address its actual behavior. Set $TERM to "gnome" and report discrepancies there. For instance, the comment about gnome's bu

Re: [Bug 128136] Re: uxterm man page has a typo

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > and I mean asking the Debian folks.. ok (I don't have it at hand, but will look to see what its status is). I do maintain the uxterm script (though I seem to recall there is a Debian patch for that, which uses a nonportable feature). -- Thomas E. Dic

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:58:45PM -, Izzy wrote: > First it is very funny: Half a year just pointing at each other saying > "There's the problem, not here!". :-( > > @Thomas Dickey goes Second: > ===[ cut here ]=== > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $TERM

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:58:45PM -, Izzy wrote: > gnome > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mc > Unknown terminal: gnome > Check the TERM environment variable. > Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database. > Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired > ter

Re: [Bug 128136] uxterm manpage

2007-08-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi, > > I fixed the typo in 229-1. thanks > > Thomas, the manpage carries the following licensing information: (on my to-do list - #229 was just to fix some bugs that were distracting me from other work) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.n

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-08-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
oticeable for Midnight Commander if you're using the learn-keys feature). > @Thomas Dickey: If you could send me the affected termcap files (and say > where they belong to), I would try to replace mine (after a backup). If > that solves the issue, we at least know how to work around t

[Bug 52034] Re: multiple xterms not restoring from X session save

2007-06-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
compare with http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423961

[Bug 72530] Re: meta key (alt key) combinations don't work in xterm

2007-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
If you're going to do all of that, the uxterm script is already designed to set the locale and fonts properly for UTF-8 mode. -- meta key (alt key) combinations don't work in xterm https://launchpad.net/bugs/72530 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 76618] Re: Contents LD_LIBRARY_PATH cleared by xterm

2007-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
Apparently "most" refers to Redhat, using utempter. Otherwise, xterm's installed setgid. The X libraries (as you should have noted, having commented "as often reported") for several years have stripped certain environment variables from setuid and setgid programs. utempter isn't much of an impro

[Bug 51982] Re: UK Pound sign key not handled correctly by ncurses

2007-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
This bug report is completely unrelated to ncurses. -- UK Pound sign key not handled correctly by ncurses https://launchpad.net/bugs/51982 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 537616] Re: *** glibc detected *** awk: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x000000000061b26c ***

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
There's more than one issue - gt5 immediately complains that sort does not work if I run it in the default locale (en_US.UTF-8). Setting that to POSIX lets me run it. However, running with karmic's old version of mawk, gt5 does not show colors. But (still POSIX) with current mawk, gt5 does show

[Bug 519243] Re: [hardy] [mawk] match() works in exponential time even tough the ~ doesn't

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This is fixed in current release http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ -- [hardy] [mawk] match() works in exponential time even tough the ~ doesn't https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519243 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 485574] Re: mawk text-match count inconsistency

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This test case does show something (the tokens are being parsed properly, but the comparison is failing). -- mawk text-match count inconsistency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 569565] [NEW] ssh regressions in lucid: cursor color, window size info

2010-04-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Akkana Peck wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: xterm > > Since upgrading from karmic to lucid, I'm having the following problems > with xterm: > > 1. Handling of window size isn't passed to remote machines via telnet. > If I telnet to another machine inside

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 8 May 2010, frotz wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>> What's the difference between Debian and Ubuntu to cause Debian's xterm >>> background to be black? Backgrounds are black on Jaunty, but not Karmic >>> and not Lucid.

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 6 May 2010, frotz wrote: > What's the difference between Debian and Ubuntu to cause Debian's xterm > background to be black? Backgrounds are black on Jaunty, but not Karmic > and not Lucid. A dirty work-around is to use this command "xterm -class > XTerm-color" to spawn an xterm. What c

Re: [Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: >> From the last comment, sounds like this is a wontfix issue. Certainly > not something we'd patch ourselves in ubuntu, and upstream already knows > about the issue, so no need to have this bug report open any further. It would only be fixed in the X

Re: [Bug 320958] Re: xterm renders some unicode characters incorrectly when using colors (or bold?)

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Sorry, this testing was on Karmic. I'll check on Lucid in a moment. The fonts are probably much the same... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm renders some unicode characters incorrectly when using

Re: [Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Actually, fixing the manpage is probably within scope. The next xterm > upload will fix this. It's been documented in the xterm manpage since patch #250. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm ignores

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hmm, not sure how to go about fixing this. I can confirm the behavior. > We're not doing anything in the xterm packaging to make it white rather > than black in Ubuntu. Maybe something elsewhere in the system is > causing it to show up white but I ca

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
Julian's comment #15 seems to be the best clue (though why it would be set for uxterm and not xterm, I don't know). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261 You recei

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different > from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults, > and the x11-common resource file is the same as from debian. If I had something like that where I could tes

[Bug 485574] Re: mawk text-match count inconsistency

2009-11-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
Unless access_log is encoded in UTF-8 (a possibility), mawk and gawk should give the same result for that pattern. -- mawk text-match count inconsistency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- xterm word wrap bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505526 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://l

[Bug 255322] Re: xterm does not handle tab character in last column correctly

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This is the same issue as described in my faq: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#grep_colors (not a bug in xterm) ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- xterm does not handle tab character in last column correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25532

Re: [Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Imre Péntek wrote: > May I ask why it is changed to invalid? btw I can still reproduce with > xterm under ubuntu. It's not a bug, but the way vt100's would work. That seems the most appropriate status. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island

[Bug 269895] Re: diffstat: bogus parsing of diffs that contain \ No newline at end of file

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed upstream in http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/CHANGES 31-Aug-2009 diffstat 1.49 add special case for no-newline message from some diff's (Ubuntu #269895). -- diffstat: bogus parsing of diffs that contain \ No newline at end of file https://bugs

[Bug 209537] Re: diffstat does not honor COLUMNS environment variable

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
diffstat already has a -w option which can be used to achieve the same result. Making it respond to the environment variable would change existing uses. man diffstat -w number specify the maximum width of the histogram. The histogram will never be shorter than

[Bug 481740] Re: termcap emulation broken

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed upstream in 20091114 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). -- termcap emulation broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 481253] Re: xvile 9.7 hangs on amd64 (9.6 was ok)

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
The fixes mentioned are in 9.7x (which currently is in Lucid). I made one additional fix which may be relevant for 9.7y (the current version is 9.7z, I have unrelated changes for 9.7za) -- xvile 9.7 hangs on amd64 (9.6 was ok) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481253 You received this bug notifica

[Bug 464274] Re: Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed upstream in 20091031 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274). -- Karmic libncurses5.7 problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464274 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 438413] Re: init_color (and the capability) for terminal type "linux" fails when red, green and/or blue is set to the maximum value (1000)

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Upstream has these changes, last updated in 20091003 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler: + add linux-16color -- init_color (and the capability) for terminal type "linux" fails when red, green and/or blue is set to the maximum value (1000) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438413 You

Re: [Bug 209537] Re: diffstat does not honor COLUMNS environment variable

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > The request was for diffstat to honor the existing $COLUMNS env > variable. Commandline options are orthogonal to this. If you have some advice on how to not impact existing usage, you should comment on that in the bug report. -- Thomas E. Dickey ht

[Bug 96676] Re: function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
I've never come across any useful documentation from the GNOME project. Just stuff that is targeted at nontechnical end-users. However, the simplest fix would be setting gnome-terminal's TERM variable to "gnome", and handling the inevitable release-to-release nits with fixes in the terminal databa

[Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
The report has several problems. I'll list a few of them. vte would like to emulate xterm (it's incomplete). xterm emulates vt100, vt220, etc. Those are all 24x80. PC's have 25x80. But their emulation of vt100 is weak, with well-known differences. Terminator isn't relevant to the topic. Gene

Re: [Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Dominic Evans wrote: > @dickey so what is your suggested fix for the usability issue? :-) It should be fixed in the qemu package, rather than gnome-terminal (by making it work with different screensizes). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island

Re: [Bug 526894] [NEW] xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote: > Public bug reported: This appears to be a duplicate of 526893. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526894 You r

Re: [Bug 526893] [NEW] xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: xterm > > xterm misinterpretes some characters and writes junk text to the > terminal under the followign conditions: > > 1. The prompt contains special charachters, in this test case german umlauts > 2. The

[Bug 526894] Re: xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 526893 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526893 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 526893 xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text -- xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text https://bugs.launchpa

Re: [Bug 526893] Re: xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote: > zsh is the login shell, but this is about Bash (running from zsh or > "native" does not matter). The bug is reproducible across multiple > hosts, users, environments. > > It is not related to the shell itself. The bug can be reproduced in > Bash, Dash a

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 23:28:51 -, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> gavi...@teenie:~$ xrdb -query >> Xcursor.size: 18 >> Xcursor.theme: Human >> Xcursor.theme_core: true >> Xft.antialias: 1 >> Xft.dpi:96 >> Xft.hinting:1 >> Xft.hintst

[Bug 258089] Re: xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher

2009-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
The previous comment stated that it was assumed to be fixed in #235. This comment repeats the original report against #229. (The current version is #248). -- xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258089 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 258089] Re: xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher

2009-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
No - since there's no fix released for 8.04 Hardy. But it's certainly not a "New", since there's previous history which tends to make it "Confirmed". (There's no progress on it in this release). -- xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258089 You received

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, David Sharnoff wrote: > xterm can't change it's title any more. Did this fixing this "bug" There is a resource setting that can disable it - perhaps someone set that. (which version of xterm are we discussing?) > break this important feature? The screen program is one

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Paul Szabo wrote: >>> xterm can't change it's title any more. ... >> ... look at the control-right-mouse entry for "Enable Title Ops" ... > > Testing my own karmic machine: the xterm default "Allow Title Ops" is > ticked, "Allow Window Ops" is not ticked. Apparently regardless

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Paul Szabo wrote: > Dear Thomas, > > The "problem" is not with the meanings or descriptions of AllowTitleOps > (though a warning that "setting AllowWindowOps is insecure" is missing). > > The problem is that > perl -e 'print "\e\]0;;bad-command;\a\e\[21t"' > should set the ti

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
I don't see xterm's version number anywhere, and don't see a pointer to the package definition for xterm, to see what changes may have been made from the upstream source. -- xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495733 You r

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
If it's the same executable (and unless KDE now has some feature for disabling changes to the titlebar), then it's probably a difference in X resource settings due to starting xrdb with a slightly different set of files. If it's X resources, then you should be able to see the "Allow Title Ops"

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, David Sharnoff wrote: > Sorry, I'm using 243-1ubuntu1 -- the current version in Karmic. thanks (I don't have Ubuntu, so I need information to fill in between upstream source and the package details). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
It would be greyed out if "Allow SendEvents" (control/left/menu) is enabled (in turn, that could be a resource-difference between GNOME/KDE). man xterm allowSendEvents (class AllowSendEvents) Specifies whether or not synthetic key and button events (gen- erate

[Bug 320388] Re: accentuated characters wrongly displayed (encoding problem) in title bar

2009-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
see http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_210 man xterm (resource settings): utf8Title (class Utf8Title) Applications can set xterm's title by writing a control sequence. Normally this control sequence follows the VT220

Re: [Bug 481253] [NEW] xvile 9.7 hangs on amd64 (9.6 was ok)

2009-11-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Joachim Schimpf wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: xvile > > I upgraded from jaunty to karmic, which apparently involved xvile 9.6m-1 > being upgraded to xvile 9.7s-1. > > Start xvile on any file, then type dd, and it hangs and needs to be > killed. > > I w

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Strangely, today I upgraded to the latest lucid packages and now my > uxterm is white as well. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_256 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm background

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Martin Stolle wrote: > Hi, is anyone working on this? It's really annoying 8-). So far, Ubuntu ranks _last_ of all bug-tracking systems that I deal with, for getting things done. Perhaps the package maintainers tend to assume that all of the work is done in Debian. > I ra

Re: [Bug 587056] [NEW] vim mapping of fails when connected using putty

2010-05-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote: > You have been subscribed to a public bug: > > Binary package hint: firefox > > The mapping I use in vim is > map a=strftime("%d/%m/%Y %T") > > When I use putty to connect to open a console to the system, I open vim and > F3 prints the date > Wh

Re: [Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote: > You can use an ANSI sequence to resize a terminal. The following works > in gnome-terminal: technically that's not ANSI (other than the form). It's one of the dtterm (Sun) sequences that I implemented for xterm. The security people don't much like it.

[Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
The only (upstream) thing that comes to mind is to make the include-structure of the uxterm app-defaults files consistent with xterm. Doing that will make this user's windows both have a white background. I'm doing that for patch #256. I did notice that on my Debian/stable (sarge), that the "c

[Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Other than documenting it in the manpage as a limitation of the X libraries, there's no fix to be made, noting that it's already documented in the changelog from 5 years ago. -- xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438850 You received this

Re: [Bug 399625] Re: Merge ncurses 5.7+20090803-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

2009-09-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: > Since it's past feature freeze now, does that new upstream version have > any intrusive changes/new features? Do we need it in karmic to fix > urgent bugs? What's the previous patch-date? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-is

Re: [Bug 399625] Re: Merge ncurses 5.7+20090803-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

2009-09-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: > Since it's past feature freeze now, does that new upstream version have > any intrusive changes/new features? Do we need it in karmic to fix > urgent bugs? Reading this bug report, it seems that 20090607 is where karmic is. 20090613 has a build-fix. There

[Bug 190852] Re: Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
Actually, there was adequate information to discuss the report. (looks like someone's mis-triaging reports). -- Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

Re: [Bug 190852] Re: Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Kamus wrote: > @Thomas, please what do you mean with mis-triaging? I closed this report > because have a long time here without activity and since nobody has > confirmed this problem I change to invalid until other people can check > if this issue is still occurring. Please re

Re: [Bug 190852] Re: Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Micah Cowan wrote: > Kamus, I see absolutely nothing in Thomas Dickey's comments that even > remotely hint at a violation of the Code of Conduct, so maybe you could > consider dialing your sensitivity down a bit? > > Thomas, I think the (previous) "Incomplete" status was due t

Re: [Bug 464274] [NEW] Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Michael Selig wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: libncurses5 > > Just upgraded to Karmic, and some legacy ncurses programs broke, using > libncurses5 ver 5.7+20090303-2ubuntu2. > Replacing /lib/libncurses.5.7.so with the version from Jaunty fixes the > pr

Re: [Bug 438054] [NEW] SCIM and Anthy do not work

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, juhtolv wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: xterm > > Whenever I want to write Japanese language, I use input method called > Anthy, via scim-bridge. No matter how much I hit Ctrl-Space, Alt-Space > or Shift-Space, SCIM-toolbar do not appear at all, when mou

[Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Not a bug in xterm, but a limitation of the X libraries. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_188 Patch #188 - 2004/5/12 - XFree86 4.4.99.6 modify initialization of 256- and 88-colors so that colors beyond 16 are normally not X resources. This works around a hard-coded limit in

[Bug 400409] Re: RS is readonly

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
If the Debian packager were responding, it would be about a week. However, he's ignored most of my bug reports (aside from the one about incorrect license). Look here - I've marked fixed-upstream on the ones that I believe are done... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=mawk --

[Bug 293708] Re: lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Is this with lynx 2.8.1dev.1, or some other version? -- lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293708 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 293708] Re: lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
This isn't the same case as Debian #231609 (I'll make a fix in lynx 2.8.8dev.1). -- lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293708 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

Re: [Bug 421261] [NEW] xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: xterm > > Since upgrading my Acer Aspire One to Karmic, my xterms always have a > white background. > > Looking at /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, it appears it should be > black: > > ! Set the default t

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > I downgraded and it made no difference, the xterms are still white: A packager may have made changes to the X resources which would show up in the output from "xrdb -query". -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > gavi...@teenie:~$ xrdb -query > Xcursor.size: 18 > Xcursor.theme: Human > Xcursor.theme_core: true > Xft.antialias: 1 > Xft.dpi:96 > Xft.hinting:1 > Xft.hintstyle: hintslight > Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault > Xft.rgba: rgb > > N

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