Subject: Re: port-amd64/34282: console color is broken on amd64 when using pkgsrc/misc/screen on amd64
To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/04/2006 07:55:49
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:04:10AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:15:32PM +0000, George Georgalis wrote:
>> I've localized the problem to the .Xdefaults entry:
>
>The report was for "OOPS", which would come from an application running
>within xterm (or whatever terminal).  There's no mechanism that would
>make xterm send "OOPS" by itself that I can think of.

My report was for ANY use of color control sequences (eg colorls,
vim, etc) within screen generate a literal "OOPS" instead, when
connecting to amd64.  Removing "xterm*colorRVMode: true" from
.Xdefaults FIXES the problem. at the expense of disabling a
feature I want.

// George


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