Date: 21 Jan 2000 07:34:21 -0000 From: gedge@inner.demon.co.uk (Geraint A Edwards) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions list) Subject: Re: 3.3: screen port - term settings Message-ID: <86925t$dsj$1@inner.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <85pcc1$t2g$1@inner.demon.co.uk>
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In article <85pcc1$t2g$1@inner.demon.co.uk>, Geraint A Edwards <gedge@serf.org> wrote: > I am setting up 3.3 (upgrading from 2.2.2, at last), and use > 'screen' all the time (in 'xterm'). (In truth, I'm fiddling with > 3.3 while - impatiently - waiting for 3.4 to arrive, but anyway...) > > I think something's wrong with the screen termcap - it just isn't > using the the bottom line of the xterm for the info lines (e.g. > C-a w). Instead the info appears at the current cursor position > and does not disappear (it wasn't even inverse video). > > This is 'screen' as installed from the 3.3 CD. I've checked that > /etc/termcap holds an entry for TERM=screen (it does) and that > this is the latest screen (it is). Beyond that, termcap is > almost rot13 to me. Thanks to all those who responded. The answer was to do the following from the screen package: cp etc/etcscreenrc /usr/local/etc/screenrc Did the job perfectly - thanks! -- "Gedge" = Geraint A Edwards = gedge@serf.org Caerdydd, Cymru = Cardiff, Wales : http://serf.org/gedge/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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