On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 09:31 +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:03 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > ... and so mc fails to run with the given workaround. There is no such > > gnome-256color terminfo. > > Hi! > > Actually this workaround doesn't work at all, that's why I removed it > from the new version of the package to be uploaded soon. The real fix is > to patch VTE, which I did for my Ubuntu PPA and updated the bug against > upstream, but it's around for like 3 years already and they are not > really determined to fix it. >
It's an extremely annoying situation. Will the VTE patch be applied to Debian's version? On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 04:55 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > gnome-256color isn't in ncurses-base, but is in ncurses-term. Ah ok, thanks Thomas. I notice that ncurses-base does have xterm-256color, and it fixes (works around) the cursor problem the same way that gnome-256color from ncurses-term does. In fact xterm-256color is probably a little saner, since I notice if I use gnome-256color, that there's a side-effect where mc outputs "Press any key to continue..." and halts waiting for a key, when I run an aliased cd command to a specific directory. Very annoying. I suggest the best thing for us in the short term is to keep the advice in README.Debian, but refer to xterm-256color rather than gnome-256color. That would save having to pull in the extra ncurses package, and it works better anyway. (or did you mean, Yury, that xterm-256color does not fix the problem in the new version either?) (maybe a better solution still would be to remove gnome-terminal from the archives altogether??? ;) ) Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
