Re: ncurses and some terminals in gui mode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:

> I have found out that different terminals (GUI mode) deal with curses
> apllications in different ways.
> The problem is that some of them (eterm, gnome term) restore the view of
> the window to the previous state after any curses application has
> completed. So the user is not able to see any output results. Only rxvt
> doesn't do this.
> How can I deal with this?
> Some terminal option should be set by a program to prevent this?

See
        http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_tite

The differences you're observing are due to differences in the terminfo
entry, or (for instance in the 1049 code) some emulators not interpreting
them (or incorrectly if they're recognized).

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