Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-09-08 Thread ivan
| That'd also solve the cases where a terminal changes right beneath a | running application. That | happens during attaching a screen session. No it doesn't. Screen provides a virtual terminal with lots and lots of capabilities. It then reduces them itself internally to what it thinks the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-09-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:50:10 +0200 ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | That'd also solve the cases where a terminal changes right | | beneath a running application. That | | happens during attaching a screen session. | | No it doesn't. Screen provides a virtual terminal with lots and | lots of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-09-07 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:19:51PM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: Joe Wells wrote: The best solution to this that I can think of is to extend OpenSSH with the capability to copy terminfo information to ~/.terminfo on the remote system. IMHO automated overwriting files in $HOME on every login

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-09-06 Thread Jan Kundrát
Joe Wells wrote: The best solution to this that I can think of is to extend OpenSSH with the capability to copy terminfo information to ~/.terminfo on the remote system. IMHO automated overwriting files in $HOME on every login is a *very* bad thing. And if you wanted to remove those -via-ssh-#

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-29 Thread Francesco R
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:43:54 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | putty pretends to be an xterm and dies at xtermcontrol --get-bg... I | can test other things if you need.. just give me some idea :) Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:28:28 +0200 ivan vadovič [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think the key thing here is that the application should be able to | ask the terminal for its feature set. Should and can are two entirely different things. We're dealing with reality here and trying to cope with fifty

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-22 Thread Tavis Ormandy
--On Monday, August 22, 2005 00:21:16 + Renat Lumpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours properly like real xterm does. The following bash script, when run with '256'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:43:54 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | putty pretends to be an xterm and dies at xtermcontrol --get-bg... I | can test other things if you need.. just give me some idea :) Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours properly like real

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fixing the TERM mess

2005-08-21 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Thanks. The other useful one is to see whether it does 256 colours properly like real xterm does. The following bash script, when run with '256' as its argument, should look the same as it does when run under a real xterm. Not