Re: [Fwd: Re: Clearing the screen was: Re: ShortCut for findNext in Mcedit]

["A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema xs4all nl>]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 18:42, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>
> > I am most embarased, but I don't know how to make a screenprint. From an
> > xterm........ I use Gnome and RH 9.0.
>
> Are you saying you are using xterm?  Can you try other terminals, such as
> rxvt and gnome-terminal?

Ok, this is my ignorance, checking the properties it turned out to be a
gnome-terminal all te time. 
Actually, it is gnome-terminal that has the problem. I started an xterm
using a gnome-terminal and the problem was gone. I don't know how to
start an rxvt, but it seems possible to be just a gnome-terminal
problem. 

Does this help?

> > As soon as I have found how to make a screen print I will send one.
>
> Actually, it's not needed.  I understand how it looks like.  I just cannot
> reproduce the problem.

Do you use gnome-terminal? Probably you don't....

> As I understand the code, the terminal contents is saved and then
> restored.  However, the cursor is not positioned to a certain place.
> However, the terminal does the right thing and restored the cursor.  This
> stopped working for you.
>
> Can you please downgrade to mc-4.5.55 temporarily to see if the problem
> persists?  I still don't understand if any changes in mc are responsible
> for this problem or it's caused by other changes, e.g. in terminfo, S-Lang
> or terminal.
>
> > The problem is, that after closing mc the commandline is obscured by
> > whatever is already on the screen.
>
> It's possible to put the cursor to the bottom, but we'll put at
> disadvantage users who don't have this problem.

I agree. This is not desirable. Besides, the obvious, temporary
solution, until the problem in gnome-terminal is found, is to use rxvt
or xterm instead.

Do you know of any disadvantages of using xterm in stead of gnome-term?

Anyway, thanks very much for the help so far. It seems like the problem
is localized to gnome-terminal. Maybe someone can rxvt (cause I don't
know how to start it)?


Guus Bonnema.

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A.J. Bonnema <abonnema xs4all nl>