Hi there list,

There is something anoying me. And that is whenever I'm in the process
of compiling some software (./configure, make, make install (or
checkinstall)) my terminal gets screwed up.

Normally I can type senteces in rxvt which spam several screen lines,
but when it is screwed up I van get about 50-60 characters in when a CR
is inserted without a linefeed. Making me type over the tekst I entered
previous.

It works great if I do not have to look at what I typed, but I usually
make it a custum to check what I've typed. And that is sort of
impossible this way.

I use rxvt as a console, my TERM is set to "xterm".

Peter

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"Bilbo" <bilbono@spamnedlinux.nl> wrote:
> There is something anoying me. And that is whenever I'm in the process
> of compiling some software (./configure, make, make install (or
> checkinstall)) my terminal gets screwed up.

What kind of software is doing this? Check what the Makefile is doing,
maybe it prints some kind of control sequences to your terminal.

I'm not that familiar with rxvt myself as I prefer xterm, but if the
terminal gets in a bad mode which could happen if you do something like
typing a binary file (cat /bin/ls) it most often helps to type "reset". That
is type "reset" at the prompt, do not press any reset-button :-)

regards Henrik
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On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:19:07 +0100, Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com wrote:

> typing a binary file (cat /bin/ls) it most often helps to type "reset". That
> is type "reset" at the prompt, do not press any reset-button :-)

I put this in my .bashrc

alias sreset='stty sane; reset; tput init ;echo -e \\033c'

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On 2003-12-25, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> What kind of software is doing this? Check what the Makefile is doing,
> maybe it prints some kind of control sequences to your terminal.

Well that is the funny thing...... just good old basic

../configure --bla --blaa
make
make install (or checkinstall)

> is type "reset" at the prompt, do not press any reset-button :-)

will try that


Merry X-mas

Peter
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On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:42:58 +0100, bilbono@spamnedlinux.nl wrote:

> Well that is the funny thing...... just good old basic

I think that you should try pterm from PuTTY. pterm is
a light weight but very functional terminal emulator; I don't
use anything else.

You can grab my package builder script from
http://www.interlude.org.uk/unix/sla...s/putty.tar.gz

although essentially all you need to do is
grab the PuTTY CVS source from the Putty site
unzip -L puttysource.zip
cd unix
make -f makefile.gtk

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