Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:43:29 -0800 From: Michael Barrett <mike@daboyz.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aterm, screen, and backspace Message-ID: <20021219074329.GA24514@daboyz.org> In-Reply-To: <20021219072640.GB21600@daboyz.org> References: <20021219072640.GB21600@daboyz.org>
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Ok, please ignore my question. I'm still not 100% sure what happened, but
somehow a version of aterm was left in /usr/local/bin/aterm from when I edited
the Makefile and removed the entries for --enable-utmp and --enable-wtmp. That
version seemed to be messing up screen, and I'm not sure why. When I removed
that version manually and did a make deinstall and then make clean, and then
make install (inside the aterm port dir) everything seems to be working fine
again.
This brings up another question I had however: Say I see a configuration in
a ports Makefile that I want to change. What is the proper way to go about
doing this? In this example, I saw the following line in
/usr/ports/x11/aterm/
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= \
--enable-transparency --enable-background-image \
--disable-delete-key --disable-backspace-key \
--enable-fading --enable-utmp --enable-wtmp
I wanted to get rid of the utmp and wtmp features, so I erased that line as well
as the preceeding \. I had tried using: make install
CONFIGURE_ARGS=<args I wanted>, but the others seemed to be added no matter
what (I believe due to the fact that in the makefile it's using += rather than
just =).
Anyways, what would be the best way of going about this? Thanks again for all
your help.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:26:40PM -0800, Michael Barrett wrote:
> Howdy, I just recently got into freebsd and everything has been running
> great. Tonight I decided to change the compile time options that I set
> aterm up with and ran into some problems.
>
> Before doing this I went ahead and ran cvsup to make sure I had the latest
> and greatest port of aterm. I don't know if anything got updated, but
> I only built my machine about a month ago with the latest ports. I haven't
> seen any changes to the aterm port, but maybe I'm using the port changes
> search engine wrong.
>
> Anyways, after making sure I had the latest port info I then de-installed
> my copy of aterm, and then did a make install clean to re-install it, using
> the standard Makefile.
>
> Everything seemed fine till I went and ran screen. When I ran screen, I
> found that I could no longer use backspace. Instead of backspacing, it
> would instead simply cause my terminal to beep. I hit ^V then the backspace
> key and this is the code it's returning: ^[[3~ .
>
> I looked around the newsgroups and couldn't find a whole lot of answers
> in regards to this. I found something about .inputrc, a file which I use
> to give me vi bindings in the python interpreter. Here's the extent of my
> .inputrc file:
>
> set editing-mode vi
>
> I wouldn't imagine this would cause many problems, yet when I went ahead
> and moved the .inputrc to .inputrc.old and started up screen, then my
> backspace key printed a ~ and would cause my terminal to beep. Hitting
> ^V backspace now reported ^[[3~ as well.
>
> Anyways I quite plainly 'don't get it'. Nothing else has changed on my
> system. I am running the following software:
>
> Screen version 3.09.13 (FAU) 5-Sep-02
> aterm version 0.4.2
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks in advance for any help you can
> give me. I use screen and aterm a lot, so losing the combo really really
> hurts. Thanks again.
>
> --
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