Re: address@hidden: "termcap" doesn't work]

[Micah Cowan]

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lestat V wrote:
> I use gnome-terminal whose $TERM is xterm.
> when I invoke screen the $TERM is changed to "screen",
> which make my "aptitude" and "mutt" etc. draw a very
> dirty screen.

It would be inappropriate for screen to fail to change TERM in that way:
mutt and aptitude needs to send the escape sequences that screen
expects, not gnome-terminal: it's mutt's job to talk to screen, and it's
screen's job to talk to gnome-terminal.

The fact that TERM=screen makes mutt and aptitude draw incorrectly,
tells me that your terminfo database probably has incorrect information
on screen (or, perhaps those settings are missing). That's assuming that
these programs render fine outside of screen, of course.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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