Not only everything blinks but the background color changes to some middle
scale gray and that happens with all pdcurses demos

But that's minicom. I just tested with screen and they work just fine,
color included

I kind of remember now minicom had such problems with curses 15+ years
back. It seems it's not a bug, it's a feature

El vie, 22 ene 2021 a las 19:26, Ken Pettit (<petti...@gmail.com>) escribió:

> But using tmux, I am able to get pdcurses displays like this (it
> actually has color):
>
>     File  Debug  Help
> ┌───Watch───────────────────┐
> ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│ │
> │ ││                           │
> │                                      .     *
> ││                           │
> │                                   x     *    .
> ││                           │
> │      __  __                     *     .     x
> ││                           │
> │     /  \/  \                  .          x     .
> ││                           │
> │         \   \                     x  |\     *
> ││                           │
> │    I Q - A N A L O G                 | \ ││                           │
> │           \   \                (\,   |  \     ,/)
> ││                           │
> │            \__/\__/             \(   |___\    )/
> ││                           │
> │                                 //\  # oo #  /\\
> ││                           │
> │                                (/  \_#  * #_/  \)
> ││                           │
> │                                  \ /  ####  \ /
> ││                           │
> │      M E R L I N                  /\   ##   /\
> ││                           │
> │       Debugger                      )      (
> ││                           │
> │         v2.8                        |      |
> ││                           │
> │                                     |      |
> ││                           │
> │                                     +~~~~~~+
> ││                           │
> │ ││── Key Debug ──────────────│
> │ ││                           │
>
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘└───────────────────────────┘
>
> ┌───Command────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> │ merlin> │
> │ │
> │ │
> │ │
> │ │
> │ │
>
> └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
>
> On 1/22/21 4:18 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > On 2021-01-22 23:43, Gregory Nutt wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Now examples compile and work although in flashing mode with
> >>>> minicom in
> >>>> VT102 mode
> >>>>
> >> If you start mincom with -t vt100 it should force VT100 vs VT102
> >> mode. But I thought that VT102 was mostly compatible?
> >
> > The VT102 is a superset of the VT100. There are a couple of additional
> > functions the VT102 have, as well as by standard having a few options
> > installed that were optional on the VT100.
> >
> > With that said, I'm not sure what is meant by "flashing mode" here. Is
> > there some flashing effect with redrawing things, or are we talking
> > about the flashing attribute of characters, by which they blink all
> > the time?
> >
> >   Johnny
> >
>
>

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