Re: Curses console client weirdness

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:36:51PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I tried to telnet to my machine and then run the ncurses console client from
> there and it showed a number of display problems that doesn't occur when
> running the ncurses client locally (ie. from the vga console client):
> 
> * Once the terminal is clean (after running "reset"), typing "ls" in a shell
>   displays things correctly until the bottom of the screen is reached.  Then
>   characters that are typed gets displayed on a single column (the vga client
>   displays the same tty correctly).
> 
> * Mutt messages which are supposed to be displayed on the very last line
>   of the terminal gets displayed right after the highlighted line of the
>   selected email.

So what is the TERM setting when you run the ncurses client, and what TERM
setting is actually needed in the terminal you are running the telnet
session in?  Which size does the terminal have you run telnet in?  xterm and
the like sometimes default to 80x24, so you have to resize it to make it fit
80x25 exactly (so far).
 
> BTW, why does the vga client ignore the 25th line? "resize" doesn't work when
> run from a vga client terminal so this might be that I misconfigured the
> "hurd" terminal.

It certainly doesn't for me.

What does your environment say about LINES and COLUMNS?

Thanks,
Marcus

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