putty pretends to be an xterm and dies at xtermcontrol --get-bg... I can test other things if you need.. just give me some idea :)
On 8/21/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:00:26 +0200 Henrik Brix Andersen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > * Install, either with the terminal (as is done by rxvt-unicode > | > currently), or as part of ncurses, proper terminfo definitions for > | > these terminals. > | > | One could argue for both solutions here: it would make sense to > | install it along with the offending terminal, since this is where we > | change the value of the $TERM variable. > > The problem with this is that non-X boxes will be missing the terminfo > descriptions. > > | Perhaps we should just once-and-for-all submit a patch to ncurses > | which includes these new terminfo definitions? We will then patch our > | foo-terminal ebuilds to set a proper value of $TERM. Then when > | upstream (hopefully) decides to change their $TERM value to something > | sane, ncurses will already have the support, and we can remove the > | local patch along with the version bump of foo-terminal. > > The problem with this is that some terminals gain new capabilities > fairly regularly. One example is rxvt-unicode, which is still putting > out regular releases. > > A third possibility is to split out the terminfo db from ncurses. This > will let us do frequent updates if necessary. It may also help the > embedded people -- we could add a USE=minimal which only installs > 'common' definitions and leaves out support for obscure 1950s line > printers. There may be a gaping hole in this idea. I haven't thought it > through much... > > | > * Include TERM stuff in policy so that the problem doesn't crop up > | > again a few months later. > | > | I'm not sure what you mean by "policy"? > > That thing we don't have yet. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
