blinking xterm?

blinking xterm?

[Lester Ingber]

I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
package also was installed.

I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
entering simple text?

Lester

Re: blinking xterm?

[Thomas Dickey]

yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:

> I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
> package also was installed.
>
> I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
> entering simple text?

xterm patch #185 implements blinking text.

offhand, if you're using mutt linked with slang, it misuses blink
attribute in the expectation that the terminal emulator will either
ignore it or produce a bright background.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: blinking xterm?

[Lester Ingber]

I can see that this could be a nice feature for some users.  However,
can I set an option to suppress blinking, e.g., similar to being
able to use +bc to turn off text cursor blinking?

Thanks.

Lester

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST)
: From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
: To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, Lester Ingber <ingber@ingber.com>
: Subject: Re: blinking xterm?
: In-Reply-To: <20040319162221.GA1776@ingber.com>
: 
: yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
: 
: > I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
: > package also was installed.
: >
: > I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
: > entering simple text?
: 
: xterm patch #185 implements blinking text.
: 
: offhand, if you're using mutt linked with slang, it misuses blink
: attribute in the expectation that the terminal emulator will either
: ignore it or produce a bright background.
: 
: -- 
: Thomas E. Dickey
: http://invisible-island.net
: ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: blinking xterm?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:

> I can see that this could be a nice feature for some users.  However,
> can I set an option to suppress blinking, e.g., similar to being
> able to use +bc to turn off text cursor blinking?

It's a resource-setting (noting that my wording is a little convoluted):

       showBlinkAsBold (class ShowBlinkAsBold)
               Tells  xterm  whether  to display text with blink-attribute the
               same as bold.  If xterm has  not  been  configured  to  support
               blinking  text,  the default is ``true.'', which corresponds to
               older versions of xterm, otherwise the default is ``false.''

assuming that's what we're talking about, "xterm -v" would show

	XFree86 4.4(185)

> Thanks.
>
> Lester
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> : Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST)
> : From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
> : To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, Lester Ingber <ingber@ingber.com>
> : Subject: Re: blinking xterm?
> : In-Reply-To: <20040319162221.GA1776@ingber.com>
> :
> : yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
> :
> : > I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
> : > package also was installed.
> : >
> : > I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
> : > entering simple text?
> :
> : xterm patch #185 implements blinking text.
> :
> : offhand, if you're using mutt linked with slang, it misuses blink
> : attribute in the expectation that the terminal emulator will either
> : ignore it or produce a bright background.
> :
> : --
> : Thomas E. Dickey
> : http://invisible-island.net
> : ftp://invisible-island.net
>
>

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: blinking xterm?

[Lester Ingber]

I just discovered this on my own: seee my last email.  However,
my .tcshrc commands were overriding this.

However, this does not change blinking in mutt; I'll work on that.

Thanks.

Lester

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:12:28PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:12:28 -0500 (EST)
: 
: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
: 
: > I can see that this could be a nice feature for some users.  However,
: > can I set an option to suppress blinking, e.g., similar to being
: > able to use +bc to turn off text cursor blinking?
: 
: It's a resource-setting (noting that my wording is a little convoluted):
: 
:        showBlinkAsBold (class ShowBlinkAsBold)
:                Tells  xterm  whether  to display text with blink-attribute the
:                same as bold.  If xterm has  not  been  configured  to  support
:                blinking  text,  the default is ``true.'', which corresponds to
:                older versions of xterm, otherwise the default is ``false.''
: 
: assuming that's what we're talking about, "xterm -v" would show
: 
: 	XFree86 4.4(185)
: 
: > Thanks.
: >
: > Lester
: >
: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: > : Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST)
: > : From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
: > : To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, Lester Ingber <ingber@ingber.com>
: > : Subject: Re: blinking xterm?
: > : In-Reply-To: <20040319162221.GA1776@ingber.com>
: > :
: > : yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
: > :
: > : > I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
: > : > package also was installed.
: > : >
: > : > I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
: > : > entering simple text?
: > :
: > : xterm patch #185 implements blinking text.
: > :
: > : offhand, if you're using mutt linked with slang, it misuses blink
: > : attribute in the expectation that the terminal emulator will either
: > : ignore it or produce a bright background.

Re: blinking xterm?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:

> Never mind re any option to turn off blinking.  When I could not
> get a line in my .Xdefaults file to work:
> XTerm.showBlinkAsBold: True

That would be
  XTerm*VT100.showBlinkAsBold: true

Most of the resources apply to the vt100 widget.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: blinking xterm?

[Lester Ingber]

Never mind re any option to turn off blinking.  When I could not
get a line in my .Xdefaults file to work:
XTerm.showBlinkAsBold: True
I realized I probably set this in my .tcshrc file, so I changed my
defaults there:
    ------------8<------------ top cut -> bottom ------------->8------------
#       ESC [ Ps;Ps;Ps;...;Ps m
#       where Ps =
#       0    All Attributes Off
#       1    Bold on
#       4    Underline on
#       5    Blink on
#       7    Reverse video on
#       3x   Foreground color is x
#       4x   Background color is x
#       Colors are
#       0    black
#       1    red
#       2    green
#       3    yellow
#       4    blue
#       5    magenta
#       6    cyan
#       7    white
#             no   0    Normal (non-filename) text
#             fi   0    Regular file
#             di   01;34     Directory
#             ln   01;36     Symbolic link
#             pi   33   Named pipe (FIFO)
#             so   01;35     Socket
#             bd   01;33     Block device
#             cd   01;32     Character device
#             ex   01;32     Executable file
#             mi   (none)    Missing file (defaults to fi)
#             or   (none)    Orphaned symbolic link (defaults to ln)
#             lc   ^[[  Left code
#             rc   m    Right code
#             ec   (none)    End code (replaces lc+no+rc)
#                     0   to restore default color
#                     1   for brighter colors
#                     4   for underlined text
#                     5   for flashing text
#                     30  for black foreground
#                     31  for red foreground
#                     32  for green foreground
#                     33  for yellow (or brown) foreground
#                     34  for blue foreground
#                     35  for purple foreground
#                     36  for cyan foreground
#                     37  for white (or gray) foreground
#                     40  for black background
#                     41  for red background
#                     42  for green background
#                     43  for yellow (or brown) background
#                     44  for blue background
#                     45  for purple background
#                     46  for cyan background
#                     47  for white (or gray) background
#setenv LS_COLORS 'no=00:fi=00;34:di=05;32:ln=00;35:pi=35;33:so=00;35:bd=35;33;01:cd=35;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=00;31:*.tar=00;36:*.tgz=01;34:*.arj=01;36:*.taz=01;34:*.lzh=01;34:*.zip=01;34:*.z=01;34:*.Z=01;34:*.gz=01;34:*.deb=00;31:*.jpg=01;36:*.gif=01;36:*.bmp=01;36:*.ppm=01;36:*.tga=01;36:*.xbm=01;36:*.xpm=01;36:*.tif=01;36:*.mpg=01;36:*.html=05;36:*.htm=01;36:*.avi=01;36:*.gl=01;36:*.dl=01;36:'
setenv LS_COLORS 'no=00:fi=00;34:di=01;32:ln=00;35:pi=35;33:so=00;35:bd=35;33;01:cd=35;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=00;31:*.tar=00;36:*.tgz=01;34:*.arj=01;36:*.taz=01;34:*.lzh=01;34:*.zip=01;34:*.z=01;34:*.Z=01;34:*.gz=01;34:*.deb=00;31:*.jpg=01;36:*.gif=01;36:*.bmp=01;36:*.ppm=01;36:*.tga=01;36:*.xbm=01;36:*.xpm=01;36:*.tif=01;36:*.mpg=01;36:*.html=01;36:*.htm=01;36:*.avi=01;36:*.gl=01;36:*.dl=01;36:'
setenv COLORFGBG "lightgray;blue"
    ------------8<------------ bottom cut <- top ------------->8------------

Thanks.

Lester

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST)
: 
: yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote:
: 
: > I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm
: > package also was installed.
: >
: > I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just
: > entering simple text?
: 
: xterm patch #185 implements blinking text.
: 
: offhand, if you're using mutt linked with slang, it misuses blink
: attribute in the expectation that the terminal emulator will either
: ignore it or produce a bright background.
: 
: --