[gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner
Hi there, I've been wondering for a long time why is this happening, and I couldn't find a reason, so here's my question. When I sometimes use my Gentoo 2006.0 (or now 2006.1) minimal live-cd to do some tasks, I appreciate that if I enter into my root /usr/src/linux and run 'make menuconfig' ncurses paint lines perfectly, and everything is showed as should. I haven't got X installed, it is a terminal computer. When I run (now in my system, not with live-cd running) for example 'mp3blaster' [ncurses based app], or 'tmsnc' it looks as if there not redrawing as they should. But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not pretty. I am using vesafb-tng, with a ~x86 system. I do use bootsplash (well, splashutils and friends), but if I don't load it [I have another grub option that does not start it] it happens the same. I don't know what issues are happening into my ncurses libs. Thank you for your attention, Rafael Fernandez Lopez. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner
Rafael Fernández López wrote: But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not pretty. Maybe a locale issue? Does 'LC_ALL=C make menuconfig' show the same? If so, select and paste such a screen into your mail. Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote: But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not pretty. Maybe a locale issue? Does 'LC_ALL=C make menuconfig' show the same? If so, select and paste such a screen into your mail. It seems that it didn't fix the problem. I am not sure if it is a locales issue. Here are two screenshots: http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses1.JPG http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses2.JPG I am using unicode in my USE, and my encoding is es_ES.UTF-8. Yes, I have set /etc/env.d/02locale to that encoding. Thank you, Rafael Fernandez Lopez. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:33:18PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote: But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not pretty. Maybe a locale issue? Does 'LC_ALL=C make menuconfig' show the same? If so, select and paste such a screen into your mail. It seems that it didn't fix the problem. I am not sure if it is a locales issue. Here are two screenshots: http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses1.JPG http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses2.JPG I am using unicode in my USE, and my encoding is es_ES.UTF-8. Yes, I have set /etc/env.d/02locale to that encoding. Well, it seems that it is a ncurses bug. I've searched and found bug number 106820 in gentoo bugzilla if you are interested. Thanks, Rafael Fernández López. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
