[Bug 485574] Re: mawk text-match count inconsistency

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This test case does show something (the tokens are being parsed properly, but the comparison is failing). -- mawk text-match count inconsistency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Strangely, today I upgraded to the latest lucid packages and now my uxterm is white as well. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_256 -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm background

Re: [Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Dominic Evans wrote: @dickey so what is your suggested fix for the usability issue? :-) It should be fixed in the qemu package, rather than gnome-terminal (by making it work with different screensizes). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

Re: [Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote: You can use an ANSI sequence to resize a terminal. The following works in gnome-terminal: technically that's not ANSI (other than the form). It's one of the dtterm (Sun) sequences that I implemented for xterm. The security people don't much like it.

Re: [Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote: You can use an ANSI sequence to resize a terminal. The following works in gnome-terminal: technically that's not ANSI (other than the form). It's one of the dtterm (Sun) sequences that I implemented for xterm. The security people don't much like it.

[Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
The only (upstream) thing that comes to mind is to make the include-structure of the uxterm app-defaults files consistent with xterm. Doing that will make this user's windows both have a white background. I'm doing that for patch #256. I did notice that on my Debian/stable (sarge), that the

Re: [Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Dominic Evans wrote: @dickey so what is your suggested fix for the usability issue? :-) It should be fixed in the qemu package, rather than gnome-terminal (by making it work with different screensizes). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

[Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
The report has several problems. I'll list a few of them. vte would like to emulate xterm (it's incomplete). xterm emulates vt100, vt220, etc. Those are all 24x80. PC's have 25x80. But their emulation of vt100 is weak, with well-known differences. Terminator isn't relevant to the topic.

[Bug 464783] Re: gnome-terminal should default to 80x25 for application compatibility

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
The report has several problems. I'll list a few of them. vte would like to emulate xterm (it's incomplete). xterm emulates vt100, vt220, etc. Those are all 24x80. PC's have 25x80. But their emulation of vt100 is weak, with well-known differences. Terminator isn't relevant to the topic.

Re: [Bug 526894] [NEW] xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote: Public bug reported: This appears to be a duplicate of 526893. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526894 You

Re: [Bug 526893] [NEW] xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xterm xterm misinterpretes some characters and writes junk text to the terminal under the followign conditions: 1. The prompt contains special charachters, in this test case german umlauts 2. The text

[Bug 526894] Re: xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 526893 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526893 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 526893 xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text -- xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

Re: [Bug 526893] Re: xterm wrongly handles Unicode on the prompt when printing text

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dominik George wrote: zsh is the login shell, but this is about Bash (running from zsh or native does not matter). The bug is reproducible across multiple hosts, users, environments. It is not related to the shell itself. The bug can be reproduced in Bash, Dash and Csh.

[Bug 96676] Re: function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
I've never come across any useful documentation from the GNOME project. Just stuff that is targeted at nontechnical end-users. However, the simplest fix would be setting gnome-terminal's TERM variable to gnome, and handling the inevitable release-to-release nits with fixes in the terminal

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- xterm word wrap bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505526 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 255322] Re: xterm does not handle tab character in last column correctly

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This is the same issue as described in my faq: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#grep_colors (not a bug in xterm) ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Invalid -- xterm does not handle tab character in last column correctly

Re: [Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Imre Péntek wrote: May I ask why it is changed to invalid? btw I can still reproduce with xterm under ubuntu. It's not a bug, but the way vt100's would work. That seems the most appropriate status. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

[Bug 269895] Re: diffstat: bogus parsing of diffs that contain \ No newline at end of file

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed upstream in http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/CHANGES 31-Aug-2009 diffstat 1.49 add special case for no-newline message from some diff's (Ubuntu #269895). -- diffstat: bogus parsing of diffs that contain \ No newline at end of file

[Bug 209537] Re: diffstat does not honor COLUMNS environment variable

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
diffstat already has a -w option which can be used to achieve the same result. Making it respond to the environment variable would change existing uses. man diffstat -w number specify the maximum width of the histogram. The histogram will never be shorter

[Bug 481740] Re: termcap emulation broken

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed upstream in 20091114 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740). -- termcap emulation broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 481253] Re: xvile 9.7 hangs on amd64 (9.6 was ok)

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
The fixes mentioned are in 9.7x (which currently is in Lucid). I made one additional fix which may be relevant for 9.7y (the current version is 9.7z, I have unrelated changes for 9.7za) -- xvile 9.7 hangs on amd64 (9.6 was ok) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481253 You received this bug

[Bug 464274] Re: Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed upstream in 20091031 + change initialization of hidden flag for soft-keys from true to false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274). -- Karmic libncurses5.7 problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464274 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 438413] Re: init_color (and the initc capability) for terminal type linux fails when red, green and/or blue is set to the maximum value (1000)

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Upstream has these changes, last updated in 20091003 patch by Benjamin C W Sittler: + add linux-16color -- init_color (and the initc capability) for terminal type linux fails when red, green and/or blue is set to the maximum value (1000) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438413

Re: [Bug 209537] Re: diffstat does not honor COLUMNS environment variable

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: The request was for diffstat to honor the existing $COLUMNS env variable. Commandline options are orthogonal to this. If you have some advice on how to not impact existing usage, you should comment on that in the bug report. -- Thomas E. Dickey

[Bug 230376] Re: dialog --editbox crashed with 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)'

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
This was fixed a while ago: 2007/09/3 + fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe McDonagh). -- dialog --editbox crashed with 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230376 You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Imre Péntek wrote: reply to comment #7: I've encountered it in xterm. Check my screenshot. This bug is reproducibly present in xterm(243). See http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#grep_colors (since the bug is most often reported for grep) fwiw, I

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Package: xterm 243-1ubuntu1 That's from last spring. #254 is current. -- xterm word wrap bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505526 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
do you have a typescript or other text-file which can be used to replay the case you're reporting? -- xterm word wrap bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505526 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
The behavior you're seeing is because of the \E[K (clear-to-end-of-line) which is being sent at the end of the line. Attaching a readable form of the part of the script we're talking about. ** Attachment added: readable form of script-detail http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37683119/foo.map

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
The clear-to-end-of-line control arrives when the last column of the screen is filled; the cursor is waiting on that position. The control clears that column; subsequent text is written from that point. The difference that you expect happens to be a bug in gnome-terminal. It works properly in

[Bug 505526] Re: xterm word wrap bug

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
It's also the same bug in konsole (the developers copy from each other of course). The bug assumes that after writing to the 80th column that the next control will affect the next line. It does not (per vt100 compatibility). The only thing that takes you to the next line is by writing

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:09:14AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults

Re: [Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: From the last comment, sounds like this is a wontfix issue. Certainly not something we'd patch ourselves in ubuntu, and upstream already knows about the issue, so no need to have this bug report open any further. It would only be fixed in the X

Re: [Bug 320958] Re: xterm renders some unicode characters incorrectly when using colors (or bold?)

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Sorry, this testing was on Karmic. I'll check on Lucid in a moment. The fonts are probably much the same... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm renders some unicode characters incorrectly when using

Re: [Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Actually, fixing the manpage is probably within scope. The next xterm upload will fix this. It's been documented in the xterm manpage since patch #250. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm ignores

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Hmm, not sure how to go about fixing this. I can confirm the behavior. We're not doing anything in the xterm packaging to make it white rather than black in Ubuntu. Maybe something elsewhere in the system is causing it to show up white but I can't

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
Julian's comment #15 seems to be the best clue (though why it would be set for uxterm and not xterm, I don't know). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261 You

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote: Well, I'm out of clue. I don't see where we have anything different from debian for the Xresources for this. I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults, and the x11-common resource file is the same as from debian. If I had something like that where I could test

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
This should be either closed (not a bug in xterm), or reassigned to KDE (in case someone changed the default resources for xterm). -- xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495733 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 259139] Re: Ncurses package does not contain libtinfo

2009-12-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Alice Kærast wrote: Would it be an idea to include the libtinfo.so.5 symlink in libncurses5? Is there any reason it would cause any problems? ncurses' configure script generates that link - but only if it's configured to generate the separate library. As I understand it,

[Bug 321890] Re: hex print in mawk does not work on ubuntu 64bit

2009-12-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
The behavior in question is a gawk extension (non-standard), and has been there a while, as documented in this rather old link: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gawk/gawk_214.html -- hex print in mawk does not work on ubuntu 64bit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321890 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Paul Szabo wrote: xterm can't change it's title any more. ... ... look at the control-right-mouse entry for Enable Title Ops ... Testing my own karmic machine: the xterm default Allow Title Ops is ticked, Allow Window Ops is not ticked. Apparently regardless of

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Paul Szabo wrote: Dear Thomas, The problem is not with the meanings or descriptions of AllowTitleOps (though a warning that setting AllowWindowOps is insecure is missing). The problem is that perl -e 'print \e\]0;;bad-command;\a\e\[21t' should set the title (then

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
I don't see xterm's version number anywhere, and don't see a pointer to the package definition for xterm, to see what changes may have been made from the upstream source. -- xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495733 You

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
If it's the same executable (and unless KDE now has some feature for disabling changes to the titlebar), then it's probably a difference in X resource settings due to starting xrdb with a slightly different set of files. If it's X resources, then you should be able to see the Allow Title Ops

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, David Sharnoff wrote: Sorry, I'm using 243-1ubuntu1 -- the current version in Karmic. thanks (I don't have Ubuntu, so I need information to fill in between upstream source and the package details). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

[Bug 495733] Re: xterm title won't change with kde (xttitle, xtermset, xtermcontrol all broken)

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
It would be greyed out if Allow SendEvents (control/left/menu) is enabled (in turn, that could be a resource-difference between GNOME/KDE). man xterm allowSendEvents (class AllowSendEvents) Specifies whether or not synthetic key and button events (gen- erated

Re: [Bug 311983] Re: Window title, DECRQSS security

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, David Sharnoff wrote: xterm can't change it's title any more. Did this fixing this bug There is a resource setting that can disable it - perhaps someone set that. (which version of xterm are we discussing?) break this important feature? The screen program is one

[Bug 320388] Re: accentuated characters wrongly displayed (encoding problem) in title bar

2009-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
see http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_210 man xterm (resource settings): utf8Title (class Utf8Title) Applications can set xterm's title by writing a control sequence. Normally this control sequence follows the VT220

[Bug 485574] Re: mawk text-match count inconsistency

2009-11-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
Unless access_log is encoded in UTF-8 (a possibility), mawk and gawk should give the same result for that pattern. -- mawk text-match count inconsistency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485574 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 481253] [NEW] xvile 9.7 hangs on amd64 (9.6 was ok)

2009-11-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Joachim Schimpf wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xvile I upgraded from jaunty to karmic, which apparently involved xvile 9.6m-1 being upgraded to xvile 9.7s-1. Start xvile on any file, then type dd, and it hangs and needs to be killed. I went back

Re: [Bug 464274] [NEW] Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Michael Selig wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libncurses5 Just upgraded to Karmic, and some legacy ncurses programs broke, using libncurses5 ver 5.7+20090303-2ubuntu2. Replacing /lib/libncurses.5.7.so with the version from Jaunty fixes the problems.

Re: [Bug 464274] [NEW] Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Michael Selig wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libncurses5 Just upgraded to Karmic, and some legacy ncurses programs broke, using libncurses5 ver 5.7+20090303-2ubuntu2. Replacing /lib/libncurses.5.7.so

Re: [Bug 464274] [NEW] Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Michael Selig wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libncurses5 Just upgraded to Karmic, and some legacy ncurses programs broke, using libncurses5 ver 5.7+20090303

Re: [Bug 464274] [NEW] Karmic libncurses5.7 problems

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: It was working in 20090803, but re-broken in 20090927 + completed integrating sp-funcs by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses library (some work remains for forms library). ...runtime size

Re: [Bug 190852] Re: Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Micah Cowan wrote: Kamus, I see absolutely nothing in Thomas Dickey's comments that even remotely hint at a violation of the Code of Conduct, so maybe you could consider dialing your sensitivity down a bit? Thomas, I think the (previous) Incomplete status was due to the

[Bug 190852] Re: Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
Actually, there was adequate information to discuss the report. (looks like someone's mis-triaging reports). -- Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 190852] Re: Screen missing terminfo entries for 'xterm'

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Kamus wrote: @Thomas, please what do you mean with mis-triaging? I closed this report because have a long time here without activity and since nobody has confirmed this problem I change to invalid until other people can check if this issue is still occurring. Please

[Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
That sounds correct (it's not due to a change in xterm's sources, but in how the system is configured). -- xterm background colour used to be black, now white https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421261 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 293708] Re: lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Is this with lynx 2.8.1dev.1, or some other version? -- lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293708 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 400409] Re: RS is readonly

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
If the Debian packager were responding, it would be about a week. However, he's ignored most of my bug reports (aside from the one about incorrect license). Look here - I've marked fixed-upstream on the ones that I believe are done... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=mawk --

[Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2009-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Other than documenting it in the manpage as a limitation of the X libraries, there's no fix to be made, noting that it's already documented in the changelog from 5 years ago. -- xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438850 You received this

[Bug 438850] Re: xterm ignores VT100 widget resources color16 through color255

2009-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Not a bug in xterm, but a limitation of the X libraries. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_188 Patch #188 - 2004/5/12 - XFree86 4.4.99.6 modify initialization of 256- and 88-colors so that colors beyond 16 are normally not X resources. This works around a hard-coded limit in

Re: [Bug 438054] [NEW] SCIM and Anthy do not work

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, juhtolv wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xterm Whenever I want to write Japanese language, I use input method called Anthy, via scim-bridge. No matter how much I hit Ctrl-Space, Alt-Space or Shift-Space, SCIM-toolbar do not appear at all, when mouse

[Bug 258089] Re: xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher

2009-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
The previous comment stated that it was assumed to be fixed in #235. This comment repeats the original report against #229. (The current version is #248). -- xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258089 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 258089] Re: xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher

2009-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
No - since there's no fix released for 8.04 Hardy. But it's certainly not a New, since there's previous history which tends to make it Confirmed. (There's no progress on it in this release). -- xterm segfaults when run via panel launcher https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258089 You received

Re: [Bug 399625] Re: Merge ncurses 5.7+20090803-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

2009-09-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: Since it's past feature freeze now, does that new upstream version have any intrusive changes/new features? Do we need it in karmic to fix urgent bugs? What's the previous patch-date? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

Re: [Bug 399625] Re: Merge ncurses 5.7+20090803-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).

2009-09-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: Since it's past feature freeze now, does that new upstream version have any intrusive changes/new features? Do we need it in karmic to fix urgent bugs? Reading this bug report, it seems that 20090607 is where karmic is. 20090613 has a build-fix. There

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 23:28:51 -, Gavin McCullagh wrote: gavi...@teenie:~$ xrdb -query Xcursor.size: 18 Xcursor.theme: Human Xcursor.theme_core: true Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi:96 Xft.hinting:1 Xft.hintstyle: hintslight

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: UXTerm is an interesting one to check. I switched over to it and it gets the black background as expected. I'm not starting to wonder if that's what I might have been using before. Maybe xterm has always been white. X's default background for

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: X's default background for xterm is white; Debian sets it to black. Redhat and some others leave it as white. (I generally prefer black, since color contrasts work better against black). I prefer black too. I guess the issue here is, what colour

Re: [Bug 421261] [NEW] xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xterm Since upgrading my Acer Aspire One to Karmic, my xterms always have a white background. Looking at /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, it appears it should be black: ! Set the default text

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: I downgraded and it made no difference, the xterms are still white: A packager may have made changes to the X resources which would show up in the output from xrdb -query. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: [Bug 421261] Re: xterm background colour used to be black, now white

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: gavi...@teenie:~$ xrdb -query Xcursor.size: 18 Xcursor.theme: Human Xcursor.theme_core: true Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi:96 Xft.hinting:1 Xft.hintstyle: hintslight Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault Xft.rgba: rgb Not sure I

[Bug 293708] Re: lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump

2009-08-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
This isn't the same case as Debian #231609 (I'll make a fix in lynx 2.8.8dev.1). -- lynx can't find issuer of some https sites and can't connect with -dump https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293708 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 408496] Re: set XTerm*utf8Title to true

2009-08-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Imre Péntek wrote: Well, I reported an Ubuntu bug: Where did you find the bug?: Distribution: Ubuntu package xterm I maintain xterm upstream, and check bugs in various packages, since as a rule, packagers do not bother to notify upstream. -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: [Bug 408496] [NEW] set XTerm*utf8Title to true

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Imre Péntek wrote: Public bug reported: by default XTerm*utf8Title is set to false, however the byte sequences that will change the title bar are actually sent out in utf8, so I suggest to hard-wire this setting to true. Check the attached screenshot also. Thank you.

[Bug 407153] Re: ANSI codes for saving/restoring attributes not supported

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
For the record, the vtansi.htm page (originally by Robert M. Free - though I don't see his name on that copy) contains several technical errors - citing it in a bug report is a nonstarter. In this instance, it happens to say something which is relevant, but still not completely true. In

Re: [Bug 408496] Re: set XTerm*utf8Title to true

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Imre Péntek wrote: Hello, the Ubuntu system generally is utf8 based. That 'Zenék' directory was created by the installer (when I created my user account), and it really means Music. So changing the setting I suggest you to change would only mean that XTerm wouldn't be

[Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Regarding comment #11 and following - xterm is configurable. I suggest that he read the documentation and customize it. (This is not even a wishlist item, since it's a problem with the user's understanding of the program). -- Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

[Bug 364474] Re: Jaunty: no icon in the title menu of xterm

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
The xterm source package provides suitable icons, which the Ubuntu packager could install. -- Jaunty: no icon in the title menu of xterm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 378668] Re: Cursor in terminal behaves badly with special characters present

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
From the description, it sounds as if the problem is in bash. -- Cursor in terminal behaves badly with special characters present https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378668 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 320958] Re: xterm renders some unicode characters incorrectly when using colors (or bold?)

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Whether a character shows up as a box or not depends on whether the font contains the given glyph. xterm has separate normal/bold font settings, and (though it can be configured to use overstriking rather than a bold font) will choose to use the bold font for bold text. By the way, on my

Re: [Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bernhard wrote: @Thomas: I have since configured my terminal via shell settings. The desired behaviour should be default though, especially for out-of-the- box Ubuntu. Doing that would break existing applications (those that use the terminal description from ncurses and

[Bug 355883] Re: Jaunty: CTRL-LEFT and CTRL-RIGHT do not work in zsh

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Near the end of this section, there's a table showing the codes sent by xterm for different modifiers: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#PC-Style Function Keys Back to the original report - A 3 is sent for an alt key, a 5 for a control key. That's not changed in upstream

[Bug 69724] Re: Mawk does not support Posix character classes in expressions

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
One problem with the patch is that it's hardcoded, doesn't use the locale information. I've written an alternate form which is in the 20090727 version of mawk at http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ -- Mawk does not support Posix character classes in expressions

[Bug 321890] Re: hex print in mawk does not work on ubuntu 64bit

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
It doesn't appear to be related to 64-bits. The values correspond to the first character of the parameters. Incidentally, mawk's behavior matches awk's (perhaps gawk's behavior is an extension). -- hex print in mawk does not work on ubuntu 64bit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321890 You

[Bug 26603] Re: String indexes are inconsistent with other awks

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
no - as Aharon Robbins pointed out (and X/Open): substr(s, m[, n ]) Return the at most n-character substring of s that begins at position m, numbering from 1. If n is omitted, or if n specifies more characters than are left in the string, the length of the substring shall be limited by the

[Bug 400409] Re: RS is readonly

2009-07-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
mawk does care - but it's not accepting a explicit null-character. I've added a fix for the next snapshot of mawk. -- RS is readonly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400409 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 76618] Re: Contents LD_LIBRARY_PATH cleared by xterm

2009-05-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 10 May 2009, SimonX200 wrote: The problem is solved by removing the s-flags from xterm. Why the hack does a user application like xterm s-flags in the first place? xterm could be installed (and configured...) for systems that use setuid, setgid. setuid is rarely used now (was mainly

[Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
At some point gnome-terminal changed its strings for modified function-keys. I documented those in terminfo.src for ncurses 5.7 (they don't match xterm, of course). -- [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96676 You received this bug notification

[Bug 259139] Re: Ncurses package does not contain libtinfo

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
The entrypoints for libinfo are part of ncurses (whether the ncurses library is installed as the two files is a decision made by the packager, and does not affect the ability of applications to use those entrypoints). Any build script which looks explicitly for libtinfo without first trying in

[Bug 187866] Re: 'tput cols' give strange results

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
It's expected behavior - in the 80 case, stdout is redirected, so it's no longer a terminal. When this happens, the terminal initialization falls back to the terminfo settings. -- 'tput cols' give strange results https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187866 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 230919] Re: Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

2008-09-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 16:46:40 -, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote: According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be fixed

Re: [Bug 230919] Re: Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote: According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately. yes (I don't recall seeing it updated yet in Debian - checked the package page and it's not there). --

Re: [Bug 230919] Re: Xterm fails character sets test in vttest

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 15:47:00 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wouter van Heyst wrote: According to the changelog for version 236 of xterm, this bug should be fixed in that version. Doesn't seem to be in Debian yet unfortunately

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2008-07-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Izzy wrote: Just wanted to report that the problem disappeared for me after a dist- upgrade to Hardy (via Gutsy, of course). So maybe the bug is silently solved? No bug here - it's either a fix in gnome-terminal, or the application using it, e.g., vim. -- [feisty]

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-10-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: Thomas, I don't seem to understand you. I just grabbed and compiled terminfo.src you gave and while it helped with xterm (except that it's just like with my previous attempts, Shift+F2 starts a new file in mc instead of Shift+F4) it didn't work in

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: Also I just found that xterm sends slightly different codes for Shift+F1...F4, so this myxterm.ti is also for xterm: xterm|X11 terminal emulator with correct kf-sequences, This would be for xterm with modifyFunctionKeys:0 I made a list in xterm

Re: [Bug 96676] Re: [feisty] function keys don't work in gnome-terminal

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: I'd like to second steviant's request. For a long time this bug forced me to use konsole instead of gnome-terminal, just for ability to press Shift+F4. Unfortunately with konsole Shift+Left/Shift+Right don't work (which work under gnome-terminal),

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