[Fwd: Re: Clearing the screen was: Re: ShortCut for findNext in Mcedit]

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2003, A.J. Bonnema wrote:

> Ok, this is my ignorance, checking the properties it turned out to be a
> gnome-terminal all te time.  Actually, it is gnome-terminal that has the
> problem. I started an xterm using a gnome-terminal and the problem was
> gone. I don't know how to start an rxvt, but it seems possible to be
> just a gnome-terminal problem.
>
> Does this help?

Yes.  I can reproduce the problem on gnome-terminal, but only
intermittently and only when logged is as root.  At least we know that the
problem is not in mc itself.

> > It's possible to put the cursor to the bottom, but we'll put at
> > disadvantage users who don't have this problem.
>
> I agree. This is not desirable. Besides, the obvious, temporary
> solution, until the problem in gnome-terminal is found, is to use rxvt
> or xterm instead.

Fine.

> Do you know of any disadvantages of using xterm in stead of gnome-term?

No.  The only thing you are losing is the GUI for setup.  Once you set up
xterm the way you want, you only get advantages (like working Ctrl-PgUp),
as far as I know.

> Anyway, thanks very much for the help so far. It seems like the problem
> is localized to gnome-terminal. Maybe someone can rxvt (cause I don't
> know how to start it)?

Actually, it's not included with Red Hat 9, but you can get it from
http://www.rxvt.org/

It used less memory than xterm, but it doesn't have some features,
such as antialiasing support.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin