On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, wes wrote: > Seems like there's not a lot of people who have dealt with this before, > since you're not exactly drowning in responses right now. I can't think of > anything off the top of my head either that could cause this, so I would > suggest trying to go about this another way. One thing you could try is > posting your login config files somewhere, and we can look through and see > if anything jumps out to us as odd.
Wes, et al.: I think the problem has to do with urxvt here. When that's the default terminal all users (including root) see the command line shift left when it's long. However, if I su to root or postgres with a login shell (the '-' option), then open an xterm window, a long command line wraps as it did with rxvt before I changed to the -unicode version. That is, long command lines shift left with urxvt (and now rxvt, too), but not with xterm. However, if I open an xterm window from my login shell a long command line still shifts. Others running Slackware rxvt-unicode don't have this problem so it must be something local to my system. The rxvt-unicode package was built from the SlackBuild script and the maintainer of that script cannot see the same behavior (but he wrote that left-shifting is the default behavior of virtual terminals in his experience). None of this makes sense to me; it's well beyond my experience as a part-time SysAdmin and long time linux apprentice. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
