Re: Problems with ncurses in X

[Paladin]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 04:06:15 -0400 (EDT)
William McBrine <address@hidden> 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"?
> 
> If TERM _is_ wrong, then see if it's being set in your .profile or
> something. If it is, take the statement out.
> 

That was the problem!!! JESUSSSS!!! You can't imagine the time I've
spent trying to discover the reason why this happened!

I've set TERM do "linux" at a time when I was always having problems
when "sshelling" to my colege's Unix area. Since it didn't know
anything about "xterm" it always asked me to change the terminal
type on login. Changing TERM do linux solved the problem and didn't
give me any trouble then. But some time ago started giving me
problems... don't know why though.

> 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.

I *AM* sorry... I normally check for file sizes, but forgot about
that this time! :/
That's a good tip for selecting file types, thanks. =)


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Paladin