[sbopkg-users] Search window on sbopkg beta

[Chess Griffin]

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?
>>
>>
>>  -------------------------
>>
>>  _______________________________________________ sbopkg-users mailing
>>  list sbopkg-users at sbopkg.org
>>  http://sbopkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sbopkg-users
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> sbopkg-users mailing list
> sbopkg-users at sbopkg.org
> http://sbopkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sbopkg-users
>

Does starting sbopkg as follows prevent the problem for anyone?  It
seems to work here:

TERM=xterm-color && sbopkg

-- 
Chess Griffin