[opensuse] Resetting xterm?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a smallish problem. When exiting a program inside an xterm sometimes the display is not left as it was before. For instance, 'mc' sometimes leaves the cursor as white box on white background, a bit difficult to see. Minicom leaves it as yellow on white. All this after the "clear" and "reset" commands. Any other possibility to reset it (black box on white background)? Of course, I can close that xterm and start another, but perhaps there is a way. Is it an xterm bug? An application bug? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiAKPtTMYHG2NR9URAhxdAJwIQQ9j6bRgMQkKNgAXhwWZMNMdKgCcCgD3 36LcoGjQOlaAp5abPrICgWM= =OYfW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi there, On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, 16:17:34 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have a smallish problem.
When exiting a program inside an xterm sometimes the display is not left as it was before. For instance, 'mc' sometimes leaves the cursor as white box on white background, a bit difficult to see. Minicom leaves it as yellow on white. All this after the "clear" and "reset" commands.
Any other possibility to reset it (black box on white background)?
Of course, I can close that xterm and start another, but perhaps there is a way. Is it an xterm bug? An application bug?
This is clearly an application bug; if an application changes some attributes of the display, it is responsible to reset them to the initial status when it is closed. I'd call this gentle behaviour, at least. You can reset the xterm, however, by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking the middle mouse button inside the xterm; this pops up a menu from which you can choose to do a "Soft Reset" or a "Full Reset".
Cheers, Carlos Robinson
HTH, cheers. l8er manfred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Dec 19 2006 16:27, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, 16:17:34 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have a smallish problem.
And I have exactly the same and yet the opposite.. :)
When exiting a program inside an xterm sometimes the display is not left as it was before. For instance, 'mc' sometimes leaves the cursor as white box on white background, a bit difficult to see. Minicom leaves it as yellow on white. All this after the "clear" and "reset" commands.
Any other possibility to reset it (black box on white background)?
Since I use a black background by default, the cursor is changed - mostly due to action in mcedit - from the regular gray to black, making it defacto invisible. However, this is not limited to mcedit. PINE also sometimes changes the cursor color to do the inverse of (inverse color).
Of course, I can close that xterm and start another, but perhaps there is a way. Is it an xterm bug? An application bug?
This is clearly an application bug; if an application changes some attributes of the display, it is responsible to reset them to the initial status when it is closed. I'd call this gentle behaviour, at least. You can reset the xterm, however, by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking the middle mouse button inside the xterm; this pops up a menu from which you can choose to do a "Soft Reset" or a "Full Reset".
The issue should _not_ be seen in the console since it uses a hardware cursor whose color cannot be changed. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-12-19 at 16:27 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
This is clearly an application bug; if an application changes some attributes of the display, it is responsible to reset them to the initial status when it is closed. I'd call this gentle behaviour, at least.
Right. Now that you mention that, I remember than I have this problem after I kill some app, so they didn't have much chance.
You can reset the xterm, however, by pressing the Ctrl key and clicking the middle mouse button inside the xterm; this pops up a menu from which you can choose to do a "Soft Reset" or a "Full Reset".
I had tried that before, didn't work. However, I was using "less file" on that xterm and that did reset it... curious. Or it exited leaving what it had used internally. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiDE3tTMYHG2NR9URAlXzAJ9L1qMx6pyfiEeZvYvHPw4TL0LjDwCePI+z L7+wd5t2GXo0+hQTRHyTFKk= =Snto -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:17, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Of course, I can close that xterm and start another, but perhaps there is a way. Is it an xterm bug? An application bug?
Although someone mentioned it might be an application bug, try using the command 'reset' to reset the xterm session. Works when you happen to type a binary file also. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-12-19 at 11:44 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Although someone mentioned it might be an application bug, try using the command 'reset' to reset the xterm session. Works when you happen to type a binary file also.
I had tried that, also. It does reset the font and background colours, but not the cursor. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiDG7tTMYHG2NR9URAlPDAJ0T6RNeXlA3vT4jmyBauNz+QfDEaACfZG36 72vKpBbDXLBnakEkfpyoJWY= =OIGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Although someone mentioned it might be an application bug, try using the command 'reset' to reset the xterm session. Works when you happen to type a binary file also.
I had tried that, also. It does reset the font and background colours, but not the cursor.
And it resets vc to non-utf mode. Boom. Don't use. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-12-19 at 21:28 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Although someone mentioned it might be an application bug, try using the command 'reset' to reset the xterm session. Works when you happen to type a binary file also.
I had tried that, also. It does reset the font and background colours, but not the cursor.
And it resets vc to non-utf mode. Boom. Don't use.
Not here! I see the UTF entry ticked and grayed (right button menu). SuSE 10.1 yet. The euro symbol works fine there (I use another xterm in ISO mode for mail with Pine, so I can't type euro in this one). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiSOStTMYHG2NR9URAlmVAJ9EzQXoJQ7XrRRdjl09W7DDBjq3NACgkxyd VE2ZK4b9I7l/DsMaBms8P9Y= =fk/T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Although someone mentioned it might be an application bug, try using the command 'reset' to reset the xterm session. Works when you happen to type a binary file also.
I had tried that, also. It does reset the font and background colours, but not the cursor.
And it resets vc to non-utf mode. Boom. Don't use. ^^^^
Not here! I see the UTF entry ticked and grayed
Please read what I said. vc is not xterm. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-12-20 at 15:01 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Not here! I see the UTF entry ticked and grayed
Please read what I said. vc is not xterm.
And... what is vc? I am the OP, and I'm asking for a procedure for xterm, not whatever is vc :-| - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiVZztTMYHG2NR9URAscuAJ9DJrL/VmRfXCPdLMFvfyFYfsfgSACfdmYZ mjcDmrheJf30+r6vFbvgMJQ= =L/L1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Not here! I see the UTF entry ticked and grayed
Please read what I said. vc is not xterm.
And... what is vc?
Well, what is /dev/tty1 if it is not vc? (= virtual console) -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:17:34PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
When exiting a program inside an xterm sometimes the display is not left as it was before. For instance, 'mc' sometimes leaves the cursor as white box on white background, a bit difficult to see. Minicom leaves it as yellow on white. All this after the "clear" and "reset" commands.
Any other possibility to reset it (black box on white background)?
You can try also some escape sequences: echo ^V<esc>c echo ^V<esc>[2J http://www.cs.csubak.edu/newsite/index.php?t=1&p=technical_info/tables_charts/vt100_escape_codes Plenty more to try. :)
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Bruce Marshall -
Carlos E. R. -
Jan Engelhardt -
Manfred Hollstein -
Seth Arnold