cothrige wrote: > * James Richardson (james@hyperbolictech.com) wrote: > > > > > I am not sure about rxvt, but with xterm you can set the titeInhibit > > resource to true (e.g. add a line like XTerm*titeInhibit: True to your > > .Xresources file), not sure it it works with rxvt. You may have to mess > > with the terminfo database and remove the functionality of smcup and > > rmcup, which of course correspond to the ti and te entries of termcap. > > > > I do have the titeInhibit resource set to true, and it does help > xterm, though I don't really like xterm. Can't say why for certain, > though it does seem sort of slow and clunky to me. In the past, I > would also set Rxvt.termName to xterm and perhaps this helped to fix > the situation with rxvt, because for a long time I did not have this > problem. However, it hasn't had any impact this time and all my > terminals except xterm are carrying on in this way. > > How does one go about changing the terminfo database? I have never > messed with that before. The two questions which really bug me right > now are why, in such a configurable and choices based system as Linux, > would this kind of "feature" be hardwired in and made virtually > unchangeable? And secondly, are there really people out there who > prefer this behaviour? It would easily make my top five list of > irritating features. > I don't know why it is the default, and I don't really know a lot of people who prefer the behavior, although presumable the guy who made it the default liked it. ;) The easiest way to change the terminfo database is to decompile the entry for your terminal, take out the the entries for rmcup and smcup, and then recompile the entry. 1. How do I tell which termcap entry I am using? The TERM environment variable contains the value. (echo $TERM). As I use xterm, my entry is xterm. 2. Decompile the apropriate entry. $infocmp xterm > /tmp/xterm 3. edit /tmp/xterm and remove the entry for rmcup and smcup. 4. recompile the new file. tic /tmp/xterm. This will place a file in a directory .terminfo in your home directory. 5. You should now be able to start rxvt without the alternate screen. 6. Where to go next. If you want to make this your system default, you need to copy the file (as root) into /usr/share/terminfo/... (for xterm that would be /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm). If you don't want to make it the system default, but available to users, just copy it somewhere into /usr/share/terminfo... (like /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-special) and have TERM set appropriately in .bashrc. -- James Richardson
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