Re: Big dummy at work again
On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package
> > > manager. Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have
> > > just looked in my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and firefox-real.
> > > So I have experimented. Firefox-esr is the one aptitude
> > > installed, and is Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, and is the
> > > one I installed. I have both in my menu, clearly labelled
> > > Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let aptitude do its thing. It has
> > > left life simple.
> >
> > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and
> > will be until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the
> > whole screen instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the
> > screen real estate. And it been that disaster since I first saw it
> > 18 years ago.
>
> As usual, your rant is in need of some explanation as to exactly
> what your problem is.
>
Basically, when you back up, or close a text reader, it doesn't clean up
to a clean screen. Its easier to quit it, and restart it than it is to
regain a usable screen display.
> Cheers,
> David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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