On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 10:41:46AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > > On my machine it creates ~/.config/lnav, not ~/.lnav, and removing the > > ~/.config/lnav directory unfortunately doesn't change anything, it still > > crashes early at startup. > > it probably does funky things depending on $TERM. > > it works fine within tmux where TERM=screen, it crashes in > xfce4-terminal (where here TERM=xterm-256color) but works fine if i > manually set TERM=xterm. > > same thing with alacritty, it crashes if TERM=alacritty (the default) > but works fine with 'TERM=xterm lnav' > > you seem to be a guy with interest in low-level terminal stuff :) grep > -r TERM yields many things in lnav's code... and there seem to be > related issues upstream, cf https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/570 > and https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1192 at least. But it shouldnt > crash like this :) > > in the meantime, here's a port of 0.12.2, still building here... it > might give better results, or not.
This version does indeed solves the issues, it runs perfectly in the terminals I previously tested with, and it exits gracefully in case TERM is set to an unknown option: $ TERM=puffy lnav error: unable to open TUI reason: the terminfo database could not be found Looks good to me for import now, OK fcambus@.
