Re: [dwm] Characters still mess up in Xterm/RXVT

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:20:47PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:11:24PM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote:
> > for example, when I type 'ls' I get this:
> > $ ls
> > altroot boot bsd.rd etc mnt root stand tmp var
> > bin bsd dev home obsd sbin sys usr
> >
> > Now I open a new xterm (Alt+Shift+Enter) and hit Alt+Enter to switch
> > back to my previous xterm with the ls. All I see now is this:
> >
> > $ ls
> > altroot boot bsd.rd etc mnt root
> > bin bsd dev home obsd sbin
> > $
>
> Known xterm limitation, there is no way except screen(1) to fix
> this.
So, I guess many of you have something like this in there config.h? :

{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_Return, spawn, "exec xterm -e screen" },

> st is designed to remember and rearrange the line buffer
> according to window sizes, as long as you're not using a real VT
> mode application like vi -- hence ls output will be reformatted
> correctly. But if a VT app is running, it controls the whole
> window area, so st can't help there.
>
> See st as a mixture of 9term and xterm. VT mode apps will be
> handled in a separate buffer in any case.

I see, sounds nice.
Received on Fri Nov 23 2007 - 14:38:28 UTC