Re: flashing symptoms

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:12:54PM -0330, Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> That slowcat utility is really nice although it does not come with a man
> page or a --help option. But good job! Now the output of
> slowcat typescript was different than what I saw on the sun computer in
> that some characters on one particular line were one unit to the left
> and some characters below were not appearing till sometime later. But the
> windows were blue as on the Sun. The same application displays black
> bars on Linux+ncurses as it's supposed to.

slowcat doesn't set the terminal modes exactly as in ncurses (if I made
a production version I'd do that, but it's enough for the way I use it).

You should be able to spot the color control sequences using unmap, e.g.,

        \E[44m 
 
for the blue background.

> I will investigate this further after I figure out how to get rid of
> that flashing and why my subwindows are doing this.
> 
> Thanks,

no problem.
 
> Neil

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