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loggerhead

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wifi-menu GUI glitches

When I want to set up a new wifi profile with wifi-menu, the screen with profile name and password input is glitching:

The proposed solution here doesn't help.
Commenting out the whole bashrc file also doesn't change anything.
Do you have any idea what might be the problem?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

The poster in the other thread was running KDE plasma and using Konsole as x-terminal .

Which Desktop Environment and x-terminal are you using ?

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loggerhead

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

I use i3wm and termite konsole.

seth

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

What's the output of "echo $TERM" in that termite window?

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loggerhead

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

The output is xterm-termite

Last edited by loggerhead (2019-12-16 11:32:26)

seth

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

So if you run

TERM=xterm-color wifi-menu

does the issue remain?

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loggerhead

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

Yes the issue still persists.

seth

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

Can you post an image of the complete dialog? Does this happen w/ a maximized terminal window as well?

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loggerhead

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

This is the maximized window:
Image

Last edited by loggerhead (2019-12-19 10:45:43)

seth

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

Please replace the image w/ a link (the board has a 200x200px max rule)

This looks like a bug in dialog/wifi-menu
Does it work with a different TE (xterm or urxvt, *not* just another vte3 wrapper)?
Does it actually find any SSIDs there?

What's the ouput of

iw dev <interface> scan

(replace <interface> with the actual device name, like wlp1s2 or so)

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loggerhead

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

Does it work with a different TE (xterm or urxvt, *not* just another vte3 wrapper)?

There is no bug with xterm which means the bug is related to termite.
Both termite and dialog packages are up to date.

Does it actually find any SSIDs there?

Yes the first dialog shows SSIDs even though the graphics is also glitched. Image here

Lone_Wolf

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Re: wifi-menu GUI glitches

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=163103
https://github.com/thestinger/termite/pull/85

Looks like it should work, hopefully this info will help troubleshooting it.

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