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kristian

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 24

bug?: rxvt-unicode not allowed to run top, irssi and so on

Didn't know where to post this, please tell me if I'm on the wrong place.

With the latest RXVT-unicode-package (from comunity), I'm not allowed to run programs like top, screen and irssi in it. I've tried to install it on two diferent computers, with the same result:

[kristian@localhost ~]$ top
'rxvt-unicode': unknown terminal type.
[kristian@localhost ~]$ screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for 'rxvt-unicode'.
[kristian@localhost ~]$ irssi
setupterm() failed for TERM=rxvt-unicode: 0
Can't initialize screen handling, quitting.
You can still use the dummy mode with -d parameter

I've seen this happen with earlier binary pacages of "rxvt-unicode." I'm not quite sure how I fixed i back then. I might have built it myself with a PKGBUILD from this forum.

I can't find urxvt in "/usr/share/terminfo/". I think that's what causes these problems.

EDIT: Found a cvs-vesion on the aur that works. LINK

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: bug?: rxvt-unicode not allowed to run top, irssi and so on

Top and irssi are working fine for me, but I can't speak on the screen package.

Here's an "aterm thread" that has a lot of info regarding problems some of us are having with the rxvt-unicode package:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=14317

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oz

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: bug?: rxvt-unicode not allowed to run top, irssi and so on

Top works fine here.

kristian

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 24

Re: bug?: rxvt-unicode not allowed to run top, irssi and so on

hm, strange. The pacage in comunity actually DOES contain:

usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode

Why was it not present on my system?

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: bug?: rxvt-unicode not allowed to run top, irssi and so on

Hey, kristian, check to see if the usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode file is a blank file.  It is on my box.  That's one of the problems we are discussing in the other thread.

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oz

kristian

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 24

Re: bug?: rxvt-unicode not allowed to run top, irssi and so on

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=14317

It's the same bug. Witch means that we'll let this thread die. (I'll mention it in the thread you liked to, yust to be shure.)

Well, I think it's the same. But the file doesn't look blank...

Thanks