On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:17:23PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > lestat V wrote: > > I use gnome-terminal whose $TERM is xterm. > > when I invoke screen the $TERM is changed to "screen", > > which make my "aptitude" and "mutt" etc. draw a very > > dirty screen. > > It would be inappropriate for screen to fail to change TERM in that way: > mutt and aptitude needs to send the escape sequences that screen > expects, not gnome-terminal: it's mutt's job to talk to screen, and it's > screen's job to talk to gnome-terminal. so you mean that I should not change $TERM from "screen" in .screenrc?
> The fact that TERM=screen makes mutt and aptitude draw incorrectly, > tells me that your terminfo database probably has incorrect information > on screen (or, perhaps those settings are missing). That's assuming that > these programs render fine outside of screen, of course. If my terminfo database is incorrect,then how may correct it? I just apt-got install screen and ncurses-term. My debian box have terminfo bothe in /lib/terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo. Thank you for your reply! > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
