Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:22:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: weird behavior of xterm's since upgrading to XF3.3.1 Message-ID: <XFMail.970912232054.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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I recently upgraded to XFree86 3.3.1 (from a stock 2.2.2-RELEASE system).
Now my xterm's are doing weird things.
Basically, any program that uses full-screen i/o (e.g. `more', `vi',
etc.), when exiting, is clearing the screen and replacing it with the
previous screen's contents (whatever I had displaying before I started
more, vi, etc.).
This is especially bothersome, for example, when running `man' and reading
a manual page... I get down to the last page of the manual, and slap the
space bar, then all of a sudden the last page of the manual disappears and
is replaced by my shell prompt... before I had a chance to read it!
Another problem is that `BitchX' (a full-screen IRC client) is now dying
with the following error message:
Your terminal cannot run IRC II in full screen mode.
The following features are missing from your TERM setting.
Cursor left
Try using VT100 emulation or better.
which is kinda stupid, since, isn't xterm a (fairly complete) emulation of
VT100?
I believe this has something to do with `termcap', because the
`postinst.sh' script that came with XFree 3.3.1 told me that it should be
upgraded. I followed the procedures to the letter (but still I could have
done it wrong...?), and replaced the xterm entries in /etc/termcap with
the proper ones that came with XFree86 3.3.1 (I forget where these are
located in the distribution, something like
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/termcap.add?).
I understand that the new xterm fixes some problems esp. with the proper
display of colors, and the termcap entry has been fixed as well. Is there
any way I can preserve the new termcap, while at the same time disabling
the `clear screen on exit' thing and fixing the "cursor left" problem in
BitchX? I'm not a UNIX wizard but I can stumble along pretty well,
provided I have some guidance as to where to start.
Any assistance you can provide through e-mail is greatly appreciated. TIA.
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