From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 23:34:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A08F15190 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@inner.demon.co.uk) Received: from inner.demon.co.uk ([158.152.18.140]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12BYaO-0001ns-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:34:25 +0000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by inner.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA14238; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:34:22 GMT From: gedge@inner.demon.co.uk (Geraint A Edwards) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions list) Subject: Re: 3.3: screen port - term settings Date: 21 Jan 2000 07:34:21 -0000 Organization: (posting from Cardiff, Wales) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <86925t$dsj$1@inner.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <85pcc1$t2g$1@inner.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: gedge@serf.org X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <85pcc1$t2g$1@inner.demon.co.uk>, Geraint A Edwards wrote: > I am setting up 3.3 (upgrading from 2.2.2, at last), and use > 'screen' all the time (in 'xterm'). (In truth, I'm fiddling with > 3.3 while - impatiently - waiting for 3.4 to arrive, but anyway...) > > I think something's wrong with the screen termcap - it just isn't > using the the bottom line of the xterm for the info lines (e.g. > C-a w). Instead the info appears at the current cursor position > and does not disappear (it wasn't even inverse video). > > This is 'screen' as installed from the 3.3 CD. I've checked that > /etc/termcap holds an entry for TERM=screen (it does) and that > this is the latest screen (it is). Beyond that, termcap is > almost rot13 to me. Thanks to all those who responded. The answer was to do the following from the screen package: cp etc/etcscreenrc /usr/local/etc/screenrc Did the job perfectly - thanks! -- "Gedge" = Geraint A Edwards = gedge@serf.org Caerdydd, Cymru = Cardiff, Wales : http://serf.org/gedge/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message