Re: [dwm] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm-0.5

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Donald Chai wrote:
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:54 PM, bill lam wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Donald Chai wrote:
>>> You can replace that line with:
>>> ESCDELAY = esc_delay;
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I found 2 further issues
>> 1. on my ubuntu, $TERM is xterm (actually it is 256 color), but dvtm
>> cannot detect it and makes it a 8 (or 16?) color rxvt.
>
> You probably need to set TERM to xterm-256color. If 'infocmp xterm'
> says you have 8 colors, ncurses and dvtm will think your terminal only
> supports 8 colors. If you don't have the proper terminfo files, then be
> prepared for some fun with 'infocmp' and 'tic'.
>

After install terminfo for xterm-256color,
echo $TERM inside xterm now gives xterm-256color, but after enter dvtm,
echo $TERM now gives rxvt-256color, why not xterm-256color?.
Moreover colors are displayed incorrectly. This is worse than using
the previous xterm setting.

>> 2. if start dvtm from dmenu typing "xterm -e dvtm" there is always an
>> extra ^Z placed in ttyin so that when I start to type any
>> character, the ^Z appear and I have to delete it,
>> However if I start dvtm from xterm, it is OK.
>
> Change config.mk to use ncursesw (LIBS_UTF8).
>

I already built with unicode
$ldd dvtm
        linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffa7ffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f869f99c000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f869f799000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f869f552000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f869fd0e000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f869f34e000)

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