On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:11:24PM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: > Hi all, > > I've wrote earlier about this issue. Well, things have become better > since the last time I wrote on this but I'm still having troubles: > > for example, when I type 'ls' I get this: > $ ls > altroot boot bsd.rd etc mnt root stand tmp var > bin bsd dev home obsd sbin sys usr > > Now I open a new xterm (Alt+Shift+Enter) and hit Alt+Enter to switch > back to my previous xterm with the ls. All I see now is this: > > $ ls > altroot boot bsd.rd etc mnt root > bin bsd dev home obsd sbin > $ > > So from 'stand' and 'sys' the lines are cut off! This really makes -much- > less usable. This occurs both with Xterm and rxvt. (Kai once gave me the > advice to use urxvt but OpenBSD does not have a port for it.)
Are you sure they're not just calling it rxvt-unicode - that's what they do on FreeBSD, and that's what's commonly referred to as urxvt. Googling for "OpenBSD rxvt-unicode" brings up results that look usable. > Using 'screen' does make things better but I don't want to use it. > > Another problem I often get with Nvi is that after resizing xterm, VI > gives the following error: > > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > Window resize interrupted > text input mode > > And when I type 'j' : > > Error: move: l(19) c(48) o(0 > > (Anselm R. Garbe: You are working on st wich should solve these issues, > isn't it? How is st doing now?) > > I really like dwm. Especially it's 'smallness' but I just have to get > rid of all this struggling. > > Pieter Verberne > - Asbjørn
