Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:40:11 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portconfig vs xterm Message-ID: <20240301214011.6EBCD23C@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <1f477b47-6a8e-4e32-889e-7f0788132953@freebsd.org> References: <1f477b47-6a8e-4e32-889e-7f0788132953@freebsd.org>
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In message <1f477b47-6a8e-4e32-889e-7f0788132953@freebsd.org>, Craig Leres writ es: > I was trying to give 13.3-BETA1 a legit tryout and ended up spending > hours fighting with portconfig. In my experience it does not play well > with xterm. Function and arrow keys are no-ops and unlike dialog4ports > it does not allow navigation with ^P/^N. Given that that my TERM is set > to xterm when I login to the *console* of my newly installed 13.3 system > (as when I ssh in from my FreeBSD desktop) how can my user experience be > so terrible? > > I eventually figured out I could go back by adding: > > DIALOG=/usr/local/bin/dialog4ports > > to /etc/make.conf. > > Have a I managed to overlook a subtle clue somewhere? > > Similarity, I jave been hitting this on my 13.2 build server and today > figured out the poudriere itself had a dependency on portconfig. Good > luck using portconfig to change the option that controls this though. > (In the end I used my windows laptop which identifies as a vt220 to ssh > in -- so I didn't have to resort to editing the options file with vi...) portconfig works quite well with xterm. The F1 function key works, as do the arrow and pgup/pgdown keys. Regarding print of drawing characters, one needs to either enable UTF-8 encoding -- that's ctrl + right mouse button -- or use uxterm. Or one can use a locale with a UTF-8 encoding. Another option may be to invoke xterm using the -lc option (or you can get into the weeds and set the -en option yourself). Many of these options can also be specified in your resources file. Xterm is very configurable. $TERM doesn't matter. xterm -lc invokes luit(1) to handle UTF-8 conversion. The man page says it's the preferred option. IMO piping through an "external" application uses CPU cycles that could better be used servicing builds -- if you do builds on the same machine. Probably not a big user of resources but we old dogs who used to work on 96 KB mainframes back in the day are, still, all too aware of resource utilization. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org e^(i*pi)+1=0
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