Re: problems with mrxvt
On Jan 5, 2008 5:45 AM, Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:55:27 +0200
> Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > I am having a couple of serious problems with mrxvt which I was wondering if
> > someone knows how to fix.
> >
> > 1. With aptitude, when going between lines with the arrow keys, it seems to
> > mix up drawing the lines, so the highlighted line show one package and the
> > bottom window shows the description of another. Also I get double lines, such
> > as when opening the search window and going to the ok button it is drawn
> > bellow the previous ok instead of highlighting it (seems to be an off by one
> > error with the line numbers).
> >
>
>
> Turns out this is due to lack of utf-8 support in mrxvt, changing the en_US or
> he_IL locale solved the problem
Or you could use the package "rxvt-unicode-ml" aka urxvt (multilingual)
> > 2. With vim, when I open it in console it seems to throw a few characters at
> > vim so if I press something it goes crazy, pressing arrow down deletes a
> > couple of lines and goes into insert mode, pressing 50gg will delete 50 lines
> > and go into insert mode, etc.
> >
>
> No solution here yet, this is not utf-8 related and I think also happens in
> other programs, in aptitude I see a delay and refresh when pressing arrow down
> for the first time which I am guessing is related to the same issue of some
> characters being sent the to program for some reason.
>
> Fixed some amd64 related warnings in the code also, but it didn't help.
>
>
> > Any ideas on what is causing this? I'm using the amd64 architecture (core duo
> > machine) with xfce.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
Does this happen in, say, xterm? What about on the console (no X)?
What is the environmental variable TERM set to?
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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