Re: [As-users] aterm screen drawing problem

Bob McClure Jr (bob@bobcatos.com)
Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:35:36 -0500 

[I dislike top posting, but Nate does it, so I'll follow his lead.]

You may disregard my comment.  My problem was based on a
misunderstanding of what TERM should be used.  I was forcing "xterm"
in my .Xresources file because I didn't like the colors I got.  But
that causes aterm to fail to erase previous characters on the screen
if there is nothing to replace them.  This is most noticeable when
using mutt, my favorite mailer.

I built the latest aterm (v1.0.1) with all the defaults and it still
behaved the same.  So I tried TERM=rxvt (on Fedora Core 5, stock
termcap/terminfo), and sonofagun, the display works properly.  I have
now commented out the offending .Xresources entry and rebuilt aterm to
default to TERM=rxvt.  Perhaps that should be made the default?

In summary, nevermind. :-)  And thanks for a fine aterm.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:52:23AM -0400, Nathan 'Vaevictus' Mahon wrote:
> Could you get us a screenshot sometime?
> and, if possible, how to recreate it reliably, along with various 
> versions of software involved.
> And, just curious, but what is your LANG env variable set to?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> n8
> 
> Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:49:34AM -0600, Sasha Vasko wrote:
> >  
> >>Bill Carlson wrote:
> >>    
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>Having a small issue with aterm. When paging the screen, characters are 
> >>>not
> >>>cleared from the previous screenful of content in very specific 
> >>>situations.
> >>>Also, exiting vim with color syntax on will leave the term with the
> >>>background color of the vim session (issuing 'reset' fixes the term).
> >>>
> >>>Am I missing an option in my environment?
> >>>
> >>>Details:
> >>>Gentoo system, WindowMaker session.
> >>>aterm 1.0.0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I've built aterm from CVS and seen the same behavior.
> >>>
> >>>I've verified that xterm does not have the same behavior on my system.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>Root background is not set properly, I'd suggest throwing windowmaker 
> >>away and using AfterStep.
> >>
> >>Sasha Vasko
> >>    
> >
> >I'm using AfterStep 2.2.6 and get the same problem with aterm
> >(v1.0.0).  Not having time to troubleshoot it, I use xterm.
> >
> >Cheers,

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
bob@bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.  1 Corinthians 15:57 (NIV)
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