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putty pretends to be an xterm and dies at xtermcontrol --get-bg... I |
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can test other things if you need.. just give me some idea :) |
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On 8/21/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:00:26 +0200 Henrik Brix Andersen |
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> <brix@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > * Install, either with the terminal (as is done by rxvt-unicode |
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> | > currently), or as part of ncurses, proper terminfo definitions for |
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> | > these terminals. |
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> | One could argue for both solutions here: it would make sense to |
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> | install it along with the offending terminal, since this is where we |
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> | change the value of the $TERM variable. |
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> The problem with this is that non-X boxes will be missing the terminfo |
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> descriptions. |
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> | Perhaps we should just once-and-for-all submit a patch to ncurses |
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> | which includes these new terminfo definitions? We will then patch our |
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> | foo-terminal ebuilds to set a proper value of $TERM. Then when |
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> | upstream (hopefully) decides to change their $TERM value to something |
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> | sane, ncurses will already have the support, and we can remove the |
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> | local patch along with the version bump of foo-terminal. |
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> The problem with this is that some terminals gain new capabilities |
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> fairly regularly. One example is rxvt-unicode, which is still putting |
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> out regular releases. |
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> A third possibility is to split out the terminfo db from ncurses. This |
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> will let us do frequent updates if necessary. It may also help the |
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> embedded people -- we could add a USE=minimal which only installs |
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> 'common' definitions and leaves out support for obscure 1950s line |
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> printers. There may be a gaping hole in this idea. I haven't thought it |
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> through much... |
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> | > * Include TERM stuff in policy so that the problem doesn't crop up |
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> | > again a few months later. |
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> | I'm not sure what you mean by "policy"? |
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> That thing we don't have yet. |
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> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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> Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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> Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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