On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:25:49AM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > I made the mistake of trying to build and install the gimp port from an > xterm. When I came back to it, it had started sysinstall to configure > the ghostscript driver. Sysinstall looks great in an xterm, but > unfortunately keystrokes aren't mapped in a manner which works. e.g. > The down arrow is echoed as "^[0B", and while normal characters such as > 'x' and space are echoed properly, the sysinstall program apparently > isn't seeing them -- the characters are simply echoed over (replacing) > the text sysinstall has painted on the display, instead of "doing the > right thing" such as selecting / deselecting the current item. > > Is there some simple way out of this? > I've still got the xterm up and would like to finish this install. > Or should I just kill it, exit X, and try make from a normal vty?
That's not sysinstall -- it just uses the same SLANG libraries as
sysinstall does. Even in an X-term, the navigation should work with
the arrow keys, but failing that, hitting tab should let you cycle
through all of the options.
Cheers,
Matthew
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