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rich_o

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Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 49

[partly solved] screen + pinentry-curses problems

Hello,

i'm using extra/rxvt-unicode 9.05-1, extra/screen 4.0.3-5, core/ncurses 5.6-6 and extra/pinentry 0.7.3-2, LOCALE is set to "en_US.utf8" in rc.conf.
So i start screen. Everything seems fine, all keys work as expected, ncurses apps like mcabber or mutt look nice. $TERM is set to "screen" automatically by screen. Problems start with pinentry-curses. I can't use the backspace key in pinentry-curses and neither OK nor Cancel are highlighted when selected. If i set $TERM="rxvt-unicode" manually (what i don't want to do), those problems disappear, but i get graphical glitches in mcabber. Outside of screen, everything works fine with pinentry-curses.

I tried some term/termcap stuff in .screenrc, but without success (and to be honest, without knowing what those termcap lines mean). There are no problems, when starting screen from xterm.

Any ideas?

rich_o

Last edited by rich_o (2008-07-31 18:08:33)

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: [partly solved] screen + pinentry-curses problems

lol i have the exact kind of config (LOCALE is set to "en_US.utf8" in rc.conf, and i too tried the termcapinfo, etc, in screen with no success) and i have a similar problem, but mine is with screen+midnightcommander and scree+elinks, they start fine but after a while they show a black screen and the only way to get rid of them is to kill that screen

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rich_o

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Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 49

Re: [partly solved] screen + pinentry-curses problems

ok,

highlighting the selected buttons in pinentry-curses still doesn't work, but i solved the backspace problem with

bindkey -k kb stuff ^H

in .screenrc.
Is it possible, that screen needs something like a proper /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.rxvt-unicode-file to work flawless?

rich_o