From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Feb 4 20:56:07 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F07BA9B92C; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 20:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73B9912E3; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 20:56:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-244-25.knology.net [216.186.244.25] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u14Ku4Cc018431 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:56:05 -0600 To: FreeBSD ports list !!!! , FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Subject: rxvt question Message-ID: <56B3BAE3.1080103@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:01:33 -0553.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:56:07 -0000 I have been using rxvt w/ XFCE under FreeBSD 9.3R for CLI tasks on my daily-driver desktop for about 18 mos. now, love it. Since I use this box for web access as well as LAN access to other boxen on my LAN, it doesn't get refreshed very often, since I like the continuity of being able to return to tasks by just clicking back to the window I was working in earlier. I always have 4 desktops, with about a dozen RXVT shells each open in 2 of the desktops, sometimes a few more, usually a few xterms as well. The other 2 desktops are used for GUI stuff, browsers, e-mail client, etc. I did a full system upgrade this A.M. (freebsd-update + 'pkg upgrade -y') & rebooted & logged back in. I have noticed over the last few months that whenever I log out & back in, most of the RXVT windows are re-opened as they were when I logged out, fonts OK, text rendered OK, etc., but some are recreated in an oddball state such that when I open them up to full screen size, they still render text in only about 70 columns, rather than full 132-ish. I usually just shut those windows & open new ones, since I always use them 'full screen'. This A.M., when I clicked on the 'RXVT shell' button on my desktop lower menu, nothing happened. I tried from the CLI of another open shell & same story: [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:17:07am] 301 % hrxvt 107 9:00 ( rxvt -sl 5000 -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & ) 108 9:00 ( rxvt -rv & ) 109 9:00 rxvt -sl 5000 -title "System Terminal" -fg red -bg darkred -e su -l root 110 9:00 rxvt -sl 5000 -title "System Terminal" -fg red -bg black -e su -l root 301 10:18 hrxvt [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:18:35am] 302 % !107 ( rxvt -sl 5000 -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & ) [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:18:43am] 303 % rxvt: No match. [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:18:46am] 303 % [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:18:46am] 303 % [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:18:46am] 303 % which rxvt /usr/local/bin/rxvt [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:18:51am] 304 % ( /usr/local/bin/rxvt -sl 5000 -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & ) [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:19:06am] 305 % /usr/local/bin/rxvt: No match. [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:19:07am] 305 % [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:19:07am] 305 % [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:19:08am] 305 % These lines were typed in *after* I tried the menu button on my XFCE desktop. I only log out & back in as needed, often many weeks or months between logins, so I am not sure exactly when this might have started :-/. [wam@kabini1, ~, 10:19:08am] 305 % uname -a FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p33 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p33 #0: Wed Jan 13 17:55:39 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [wam@kabini1, ~, 2:50:46pm] 306 % rxvt-2.6.4_6, xfce-4.12_1, everything fresh as of this A.M. Is rxvt still actively maintained ? Known/thought to work OK w/ XFCE ? Any other issues/gotchas ? Pilot error ? Any clues appreciated, any info needed just ask. TIA & have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.