Re: Remote xterm trouble
"Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> writes:
> Is anyone else having remote xterm trouble? If I log in to my Debian
> laptop, running potato, from my SGI, running IRIX 6.5, via an xterm
> the terminal is almost unusable. It seems to lose track of the
> cursor. For example, if I fire up dselect and I start moving down the
> list of choices when I get to the bottom, [Q]uit, and keep scrolling
> [Q]uit appears to move to the top of the screen. A similiar phenomena
> happens when I "vi" a file in the terminal or do a "man
> <something>". Debian seems to get confused about how to handle the
> terminal. In the case of man I get almost continuous underlining and
> reverse-video in areas of the man page that shouldn't have this type
> of highlighting.
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For those of you interested I found a bug report dealing with
this. It's #54833 and is filed against libncurses4. I still don't know
how it was determined to be a libncurses4 problem, but at least it's
known and in the Debian system. Hopefully that means it'll be fixed.
Gary
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