Re: problems with mrxvt
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:55:27 -0800
"Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>
I use rxvt-unicode but the tabs extension isn't compatible with compiz which I
occasionally like and it takes 2-3 times more memory then mrxvt. Although my
main issue is the tabs I like. May just go back to xterm with screen (Although
it is missing a proper scrollbar). Couldn't find a good tabbed terminal. They
are either way to heavy and kde/gnome relient (kterm, gnome-terminal,
roxterminal), not compatible with compiz (urxvt with perl-tabs extension) or
not compatible with vim/aptitude, i.e mrxvt.
> > > 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?
>
In every other terminal everything is OK. Also tried running it off some
computer I have access to over the net (my machine in UNI) and it was fine.
Tried purging and reinstalling mrxvt but it didn't help. Will try another user
later on, but I'm guessing it is a 64bit issue (although I don't have another
64bit machine to test it on).
TERM=rxvt
tried changing it but it didn't help
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
>
>
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