Re: Problems with ncurses in X

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, William McBrine wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Paladin wrote:
>
> > When running "make menuconfig" inside xterm or Eterm I get the image
> > shown in the attachment. Also, some times when exiting the program the
> > characters "1;2c" appear in the shell.
>
> That could happen if your TERM environment variable were set incorrectly
> (e.g., to "linux" even though you're in xterm), though I don't know why it
> would be. (In fact, testing it just now, this is exactly what I see in
> xterm if I set TERM to "linux".) What output do you get from "echo $TERM"?

I did followup & respond to the original article, but got no response...

>
> If TERM _is_ wrong, then see if it's being set in your .profile or
> something. If it is, take the statement out.
>
> BTW, attachments of that size are frowned upon. I suggest a link instead.
> Also, in this case (where the image is of simple text on a plain monocolor
> background), you'd actually get a smaller file by using GIF or PNG
> compression instead of JPEG.

sorry about the size (the web-interface doesn't give me a clue about it).

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