Re: [gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando
>>> <sayusi.ando@××××××.hu>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I
>>>> reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing.
>>>> If I start mc in the screen nothings happen. I can see the cursos is
>>>> stop before the last line and waiting...
>>>> Generally first time the mc is start and I can work with. But, random
>>>> long time later the mc is start doing this stupid behavior what I
>>>> wrote upper. This thing is independent what I did. Last time is
>>>> started after I use vim to edit an file. Yesterday started after I
>>>> write in mc's command line 'df -h' and hit Enter.
>>>
>>> This is a very old post, but I want to say I am experiencing the same
>>> problems with screen and mc (even after I initially replied saying I
>>> didn't have it :). Did you ever find a solution?
>>>
>>
>> I dunno if my problem is the same as yours, but it may not be just mc.
>> screen has been crapping out on me lately, and also randomly, like
>> described above, when I use some of the shell scripts that I wrote. It
>> only happens with interactive scripts that display a menu using
>> 'dev-util/dialog'. Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't:
>> after the previous dialog clears the screen, screen just sits there
>> blinking and not loading the next one.
>>
>> I'd be interested in a solution too, if there is one.
>
> If you start screen, then do "export TERM=xterm", does that fix the issues?

So far that seems to fix it for me! But it's a very random and
non-reproducible error so only time will tell. mc froze on startup for
me just now (with TERM=screen) 5 times in a row; set TERM=xterm and mc
started without problem 5 times in a row. So that's a good sign, I
think.

Thanks!