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Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joe Wells wrote:
>> The best solution to t
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:50:10 +0200 ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | That'd also solve the cases where a terminal changes right
| > | beneath a running application. That
| > | happens during attaching a screen session.
| >
| > No it doesn't. Screen provides a virtual terminal with lots and
| >
> | That'd also solve the cases where a terminal changes right beneath a
> | running application. That
> | happens during attaching a screen session.
>
> No it doesn't. Screen provides a virtual terminal with lots and lots of
> capabilities. It then reduces them itself internally to what it thinks
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:19:51PM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Joe Wells wrote:
> > The best solution to this that I can think of is to extend OpenSSH
> > with the capability to copy terminfo information to ~/.terminfo on the
> > remote system.
>
> IMHO automated overwriting files in $HOME on ever
Joe Wells wrote:
> The best solution to this that I can think of is to extend OpenSSH
> with the capability to copy terminfo information to ~/.terminfo on the
> remote system.
IMHO automated overwriting files in $HOME on every login is a *very* bad
thing. And if you wanted to remove those "-via-ss
Ciaran McCreesh gentoo.org> writes:
> Now, there's a slight problem. If you have TERM=shinynewterm, and
> you ssh to a box with an old terminfo database, you'll get a warning
> or error that your terminal isn't recognised when you try to use an
> ncurses-based application. You can either ask the
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:28:28 +0200 "ivan vadovič" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I think the key thing here is that the application should be able to
| ask the terminal for its feature set.
Should and can are two entirely different things. We're dealing with
reality here and trying to cope with fift
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:43:54 -0400 Dan Meltzer
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| 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 :)
>
>Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:07:42PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:10:04 +0200 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | After the all, the whole mess can IMHO only be cleared up, if there's
> | something like a universal terminal-type, and the application could
> | ask the
> See, certain terminal emulators lie about their TERM setting. Usually
> it's things that aren't xterm pretending to be an xterm, although rxvt
> sometimes crops up too. Examples of things pretending to be xterm
> include Konsole, Gnome Terminal.
>
> The logic behind it goes like this:
>
> * We
> The termcap method is provided by libtermcap-compat. Most applications
> which use this method only do so as an option for systems where terminfo
> is not available -- for example, for Vim, terminfo vs termcap is a
> compile-time option. The termcap database is limited, generally out of
> date an
mine ended up spitting out large amounts of gibberish and ruining
the readability of the terminal... why would it be so different?
On 8/22/05, Tavis Ormandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --On Monday, August 22, 2005 08:18:42 +0100 Tavis Ormandy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> >
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--On Monday, August 22, 2005 08:18:42 +0100 Tavis Ormandy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --On Monday, August 22, 2005 00:21:16 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>> Thanks. The other useful one is to see whe
--On Monday, August 22, 2005 00:21:16 + Renat Lumpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours
>> properly like real xterm does. The following bash script, when run with
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours
> properly like real xterm does. The following bash script, when run with
> '256' as its argument, should look the same as it does when run under
> a real xterm.
No
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:43:54 -0400 Dan Meltzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 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 :)
Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours
properly like real xte
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
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