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From: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:28:06
Message-Id: CADtyuE6dFbVf3__qKwzT=74Ga+VoEg3-=4SqvpPC0yMNRZjAbA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface by tuxic@posteo.de
1 I am sure nconfig does the same thing as menuconfig and xconfig.
2 Concerning your issue with menuconfig: Is this with a new kernel? Do older
3 kernel versions still play well with menuconfig?
4
5 Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 19:49 Uhr schrieb <tuxic@××××××.de>:
6
7 > On 01/12 07:47, Franz Fellner wrote:
8 > > No issues here with "make nconfig", like that more than menuconfig.
9 > >
10 > > Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 19:23 Uhr schrieb <tuxic@××××××.de>:
11 > >
12 > > > On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
13 > > > > On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
14 > > > > > On 12/01/2019 18:10, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
15 > > > > > > On 01/12 04:59, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
16 > > > > > > > On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
17 > > > > > > > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
18 > > > > > > > > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after
19 > > > > > > > > > a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But
20 > > > > > > > > > since some interations of the linux kernel this interface
21 > > > > > > > > > has become a mess: Line contents is offsetted all over the
22 > > > place.
23 > > > > > > > >
24 > > > > > > > > What terminal are you using? Try a different one.
25 > > > > > > >
26 > > > > > > > At worked for years, with terminal.
27 > > > > > >
28 > > > > > > ooops...typo should be:
29 > > > > > >
30 > > > > > > At worked for years, with this terminal.
31 > > > > >
32 > > > > > Well, I just mentioned it because a while ago I had exactly the
33 > same
34 > > > > > problem with Konsole 18.04. It's fixed now, but back then I had to
35 > use
36 > > > > > another terminal application as a workaround.
37 > > > >
38 > > > > And this was the bug report, which includes screenshots of the
39 > problem:
40 > > > >
41 > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/648338
42 > > > >
43 > > > >
44 > > >
45 > > > I am using x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r1
46 > > >
47 > > >
48 > > >
49 > > >
50 >
51 > ...only to get sure:
52 > The functionality of 'make nconfig'is identically to 'make menuconfig'
53 > ?
54 >
55 >
56 >
57 >
58 >

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