[sbopkg-users] Search window on sbopkg beta
Chess Griffin
chess.griffin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 12:52:52 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Pierre Cazenave<pwcazenave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mauro Giachero wrote:
>>
>> Ah, the joys of computer programming...
>>
>> The extra chars appear from within screen sessions. SSH isn't
>> required.
>>
>> We're facing another dialog bug. Try this in a screen session inside
>> Konsole: dialog --title "foo" --inputbox "bar" 8 20 If you resize the
>> Konsole window, the characters appear. Now, the resize event is
>> notified to the application with a SIGWINCH, which is exactly the
>> signal we send in the background to dialog in screen sessions to
>> force a repaint (to work around another dialog bug which sometimes
>> prevented the dialogs from being drawn).
>>
>> I have no idea on how we can work around both problems.
>>
>> On the plus side (sort of), I've been unable to reproduce the issue
>> on S12.2 in qemu. Any idea on when the problem started?
>>
>>
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>
> Aren't these upstream bugs? If they occur only in screen, then surely the
> problem is either in dialog or screen?
>
> I'd be inclined to just do:
>
> if [ $TERM == "screen" ]; then
> dialog --msgbox "Using sbopkg within screen causes display problems." 7 60
> fi
>
> I know this doesn't help fix anything, but at least people will be prepared
> for the glitches!
>
> Pierre
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Does starting sbopkg as follows prevent the problem for anyone? It
seems to work here:
TERM=xterm-color && sbopkg
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Chess Griffin
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