On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Michael Wileman wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>> 
>> centericq is evil.  ISTR, it sets escape delay to zero, or 
>> something equally stupid.  I had the same problem under xterm on an 
>> i386.
>
> Should have mentioned this in my previous post but forgot: I tested 
> in an xterm (using the same wm) on my i386 netbsd install, and it 
> works fine.
>
> I agree centericq is seriously flaky, but is there an alternative 
> text-mode IM client for netbsd that will work with yahoo messenger?

OK, finally managed to work out these problems. I compiled rxvt and 
used it instead of xterm, and that resolved the keyboard problem.

There was still some weirdness with the message text not being 
printed, and I finally realized it was because the window was not big 
enough. I enlarged the window size (which required using a tiny font), 
and now I get the same behavior on the Jornada as on my i386.

If anyone is interested I can upload the rxvt package to Torsten's 
site.

Mike