Hi, > Ralf Jung wrote: >> I am using Terminator as my terminal emulator. Since the latest update, >> aptitude >> tells me I can press "q" to Quit directly after packages have been >> installed. However, if I do that, the screen is left entirely blank and >> there is >> no reaction to typing. > > How long have you waited? Aptitude is saving some states at this > position.
Not sure, a couple of seconds. I'm on an SSD, so that should be enough to save any state. Quitting aptitude normally (from the "full" window) does not occur any noticeable delay. > Going black is what also happens if run in a screen session, but > actually, everything is/should be still there if scroll back. > > At least that's for me. If I run aptitude inside an xterm, the about > 1.5 terminal heights of black do not appear. Reason for this "black" > is probably that aptitude goes back to fullscreen mode for a short > moment and only then exits. Hm, I hit "Enter" a bunch of times and also pressed some random letters. Nothing. Then I did Ctrl-C, and then I got a prompt (and some old prompts, from the "Enter") -- and the random letters were somehow transformed into garbage bytes most displayed with that "?"-like symbol. I just tried this again -- and indeed, after ~1 second, the black goes away and the normal terminal appears. That was after just installing one package, maybe it takes longer when many packages were affected? I sure felt like I waited at least 3 seconds before doing Ctrl-C. In any case, it would be helpful if aptitude could display something about being busy, instead of going all black. >> If, instead of pressing "q", I press Ctrl-C directly when I get the prompt >> that >> asks me to hit Enter, then aptitude quits just fine. > > Nope, it then can't store some states which it only stores afterwards, > mostly stuff like if reinstallations were done etc. Oh, I see... well, that's how I quit aptitude for months already, and so far it kept working. ;-) But I'm actually very happy that there's now a more "official" and reliable way of doing this :-) Kind regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
