From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Louis Bohm To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Colors mess up terminal Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010823131218.02d777d8@postal.lightbridge.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg01047.html I have been seeing the same thing. If you set the TERM variable in cygwin to vt100 just before issuing the ssh command it works. Or if want a better way. On your linux box just create a little check in your .profile to see if the variable TERM is set to cygwin. If it is set it to vt100. Louis At 12:42 PM 8/23/2001 -0400, Marc Fortier wrote: >I'll RTFM on tput. CTRL-L refreshes the screen, but as soon as something >changes, it's screwed up again. > > Marc > >On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Neil Zanella wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Marc Fortier wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:58:15 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:52:14PM -0400, Marc Fortier wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> I'm also using pine via cygwin/ssh and am getting strange display > > > >> behaviour when colours are used. Is there a solution to this problem? > > > > To implement colors portably you must use tput instead of the bash > > escape sequences. > > > > > >> In the meantime, I'll try to come up with a script that detects > > > >> whether the term type is cygwin and run pine with no colour in that > > > >> case. > > > > tput knows about terminal capabilities and displays the colors only when > > the given terminal supports them. > > > > > > I'm running `mutt' in a console window using TERM=cygwin and have no > > > > problems with it. Also `ls --color' works fine. What exactly means > > > > "strange display behaviour"? Are you actually working in a console > > > > window? > > > > > > > > Corinna > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'll try to explain better. > > > > > > I'm running W2K with all the latest cygwin stuff, including > > > openssh2.9p2. I ssh from cygwin to a linux box. echo $TERM replies > > > cygwin. If I run pine without specifying to turn off colours, extra line > > > feeds are added at the bottom of the screen, whether I'm in the menu, > > > message index, or reading messages. In the index, this means I have to > > > guess what message the cursor is over before I can open it. Also, some > > > lines don't get updated properly a the top and bottom of the screen. > > > > Try CTRL-L to update the screen. > > > > > > > > If I run pine with -color-style=no-colors, all is well. But it would > > > be nice not to have to turn off colours. > > > > > > Marc > > > > > > > > > > >-- >Marc Fortier, School of Information Technology & Engineering, >U. of Ottawa, P.O. Box 450 Stn A, Ottawa Ontario Canada, K1N 6N5 >phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 6680, fax: (613) 562-5187 > mailto:mfortier@site.uottawa.ca http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~mfortier > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ ¤°`°Lightbridge, Inc ¤°`°67 South Bedford St. ¤°`°Burlington MA 01832 ¤°`°781.359.4795 mailto:lbohm@lightbridge.com ¤°`° http://www.lightbridge.com ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/