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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:28 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        "gary.jennejohn@freenet.de" <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Final call for testers: TERM=xterm
Message-ID:  <710B0B1E-50E7-4194-8697-0511087D4C7A@80386.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20091111140216.56e63ac6@ernst.jennejohn.org>
References:  <20091111101207.GF64905@hoeg.nl> <20091111140216.56e63ac6@ernst.jennejohn.org>

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Hi Gary,

Have you made sure you ran vidcontrol on that specific window? You can  
also add TEKEN_XTERM to your kernel config. I thought dialog worked  
properly, but I'll test it again this evening.

-- 
  Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> (from iPod)
  WWW: http://80386.nl/

On 11 nov 2009, at 14:02, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:12:07 +0100
> Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote:
>
>> I just committed some patches to SVN that should complete the Xterm-
>> style terminal emulator support. This means we can just share the  
>> same
>> termcap entry between the console driver and X11 terminal emulators,
>> which has many advantages, including:
>>
> [snip]
>> If no serious problems arise, I'll make Xterm the default on
>> Friday/Saturday.
>>
>
> I'm running AMD64.
>
> Arrow keys don't work correctly.  For example, if I do "make config"
> in a port then using the down arrow immediately exits the menu rather
> than moving the cursor.  The same thing happens with sade.
>
> Note that I set one entry in /etc/ttys to xterm rather than using the
> vidcontrol trick.
>
> With cons25 it works correctly.
>
> I merely installed and booted a new kernel.  Not sure whether I also
> need a new termcap.
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
>



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