screen + centericq = garbled [solved finally]

phrakture · 2005-05-12 22:34:21

ok, so centericq draws borders and things with those ascii box characters.... you know what I'm talking about...
anyway, when running centericq in screen with a status line, the box characters bleed into the status and then corrupt everything in the screen session.... is there anything I'm missing?
I've noticed alot of people like to put huge amounts of term cap/info stuff in their screenrc's - would this have anything to do with it? I have nothing... is this possibly a termcap issue?

cactus · 2005-05-12 22:42:26

dunno. maybe if you set hardstatus to be lastline only in your screenrc it might help..

this is what i have..

hardstatus string "%{+b Rk}(%{-b g}$LOGNAME@%H%{+b R}) (%{-b g}%C %a%{+b R}) %{-b g} %n %t"
hardstatus alwayslastline
vbell on

iphitus · 2005-05-12 22:55:16

i have similar issues with alsamixer, pebrot and other similar programs, re-attatching the screen always fixes it, which is as simple as ctrl-shift+t for me

phrakture · 2005-05-12 23:03:24

my hardstatus line is similar (set to alwayslastline) - and detatching (just tried) actually plops me back on a garbled console... it's the kinda garbled you get when you do "cat /dev/urandom" and ^C out of it...

it seems to only happen in centericq and it seems to be due to the drawing... does anyone have any terminfo junk in their screenrc? (look here in the xterm tweaks section) I tried searching, as this seems like it's a terminal issue and not a screen issue, really...

cactus · 2005-05-12 23:14:23

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/scree … 00005.html

also, some people recommend pork. Never tried it myself..
http://dev.ojnk.net/

phrakture · 2005-05-13 00:46:31

cactus wrote:

also, some people recommend pork. Never tried it myself..
http://dev.ojnk.net/

wow, looks nice... I may have to try it

cactus · 2005-05-13 00:56:11

*oink*

phrakture · 2005-05-17 18:31:13

ok, tried pork... it's cool, but only supports aim and irc right now...
problem is, pork had the same garbling issue....

took me some time to realise that this was a putty issue, not screen. putty has a "line drawing" setting, and I fiddled with it to use "poor man's line drawing (+, -, |)" and it works.... yahoo (I guess)

phrakture · 2005-06-01 14:49:31

ok, just an update:

that is the "garbled"ness I was talking about.

I posted a message to the centericq forums, and only got one response saying they had the same issues in Solaris unless the used Eterm.

so maybe this is an aterm issue?

does anyone have any idea what'sa going on - it happens with ANY ncurses based app... the screencap is a result of weechat....

phrakture · 2005-06-01 17:05:24

ok... this is a termcap/info/whatever problem...

setting $TERM=rxvt get's rid of this problem.... previously it was set to $TERM=xterm-color

I'll have to look around, as this whole term* crap I never bothered to understand (who want's to know what "terminfo xterm=a:[[a:a:a:k:k:k:K:ww:wD:[]][l/" means? not me)

iphitus · 2005-06-02 07:35:19

exporting $TERM to be rxvt doesnt fix it here,

for example, ill get this issue with alsamixer, open a new screen session, run alsamixer then ctrl+a-c, ctrl+a-p, ctrl+a-p, and we get a nice garbled prompt

term is being set fine, upon opening e terminal, echo $TERM spits out rxvt...

phrakture · 2005-06-02 13:49:11

hmmm yeah the TERM thing fixed it only for weechat... centericq still gets mucked.... argh!

phrakture · 2005-06-02 15:10:23

ok, just for the record... I'm using aterm

anyone else with this problem: what terminal are you using?

iphitus · 2005-06-02 15:38:15

xfce terminal, and it also happens with rxvt....

until.............

i read the screen faq at here:
http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ … n-faq.html
i dont know if its an official one, i dont really mind, it worked.

set $TERM to vt100 and it stops the garbling. you do lose colour in those ncurses apps that would normally garble it, but you dont get garbling. ls and bash and other non ncurses apps still have colour.

phrakture · 2005-06-02 16:44:21

hmmm that makes sense because rxvt is a vt100 emulator (whereas xterm is > 100).. I'll look into this to try and find a real concise way to get this to work

hmmm if I do:

TERM=screen screen

everything works fine.... try that

oddly enough, TERM still reports as xterm-color when inside screen... so I think that as long as screen itself is running under vt100 mode (the screen terminfo setting is basically vt100) everything works fine...

let me know if this solves your issue too

iphitus · 2005-06-02 23:04:26

Seems like it works too, good work

elvalith · 2005-11-17 04:48:43

I've recently decided to try out screen and centericq and ran into the same problem as mentioned in this thread. When I did alias screen="TERM=screen screen" (I think that was the solution phrakture mentioned), while it did fix the problem with centericq garbling up everything, I ran into another problem.

I have screen set up so that it has a little caption thing in the bottom. When I run screen with that alias, the caption messes up so that the text is messed up to the point where it is not readable (but not garbled in the same way as before). Any ideas why this is happening? (I am using the most recent versions of urxvt, screen, and centericq that you can get through pacman.)

phrakture · 2005-11-17 05:33:13

The problem is conflicting terminfo setups... you want to remove every instance of "TERM=blah" in your aliases/bashrc/whatever, and every instance of termName from Xdefaults. Outside screen, echo $TERM should be "rxvt-unicode", inside screen it should be "screen"

elvalith · 2005-11-18 19:05:53

When I do echo $TERM outside of screen it does give me back "rxvt-unicode", and inside screen echo $TERM does give "screen", yet the error still persists (and I don't have TERM set to anything in my aliases/bashrc).

phrakture · 2005-11-18 19:30:15

elvalith wrote:

When I do echo $TERM outside of screen it does give me back "rxvt-unicode", and inside screen echo $TERM does give "screen", yet the error still persists (and I don't have TERM set to anything in my aliases/bashrc).

Do you have a utf8 locale? IIRC my screen got real odd when I was using en_US.utf8

elvalith · 2005-11-18 22:08:49

No, I don't have a utf8 locale (typeing "locale" returns "en_US" for everything but LC_ALL, which is not set to anything). Also, just to clarify matters, screen and centericq work just fine on the console, its just when I'm in X that I have troubles.

Edit: Nevermind, disregard what I said above. I took a look at /etc/X11/sessions/pekwm.desktop, and apparently it was set to "Encoding=UTF-8". So I went to my rc.conf file and set "LOCALE=en_US" and this seems to have fixed the problem (although the funny thing is that screen dosn't seem to have an alias anymore).

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