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lagagnon

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Registered: 2009-12-10

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Strange aterm problems after upgrade - transparency related

Just did an upgrade after 3 months - I use wmii mostly with "aterm" as my terminal application. Since my upgrade this morning I have had strange problems with aterm, including:
- when terminal requests input from user (eg after "su") password collection fails and part of password appears on screen
- when using mcedit the cursor disappears

In my .Xdefaults file I have:

! aterm settings
aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*shading:  60
aterm*transparent:  on

If I comment out the last two lines related to transparency the problem disappears, but obviously so does my transparency.  Aterm was not upgraded so I suspect some Xorg issue now with aterm.

Any ideas appreciated.

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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

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Re: Strange aterm problems after upgrade - transparency related

I have the same su - password issue using xfce's 'terminal',  so it is not aterm specific. It appeared  a few weeks ago, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Very annoying. Also passwords get written to .bash_history this way.

Last edited by rwd (2010-11-15 21:37:44)

lagagnon

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From: an Island in the Pacific...

Registered: 2009-12-10

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Re: Strange aterm problems after upgrade - transparency related

I gave up on aterm due to this issue and now use urxvt. I only spent an hour searching though, and could not find any solutions.

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Philosophy is looking for a black cat in a dark room. Metaphysics is looking for a black cat in a dark room that isn't there. Religion is looking for a black cat in a dark room that isn't there and shouting "I found it!". Science is looking for a black cat in a dark room with a flashlight.