Questions tagged [ncurses]
Ncurses is software for controlling writing to the console screen under Unix, Linux and other operating systems.
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PuTTy wrongly display nethack ncurses characters as chinese character "贩"
Using PuTTy to ssh connect to [email protected]. This is the game evilhack, but I think nethack is the same, using the curses interface, which I think is ncurses.
It should be fine, but those 2 ...
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tgetent/ncurses errors while compiling ircII on Debian 10
I'm running ircii-20190117 configure with usual options like --enable-ipv6, and what I see (many times met on other web pages) error:
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in ...
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bashtop and bpytop do not display properly in putty
I have installed bashtop or bpytop (on a minimal CentOS install) but I just get a jumbled mess of colour blocks on the screen. I've made sure to do sudo yum upgrade and rebooted, but still garbled ...
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No colors in weechat, tig, htop, ranger, etc
I noticed that on my Mac I don't have any colors in e.g., tig, weechat, htop or ranger. On my linux I do. It happens in all terminal apps I have (alacritty, iterm and Terminal.app), in zsh, fish and ...
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stderr redirection in subshell changes output of tput
So I'm working on a script and found some odd behaviour. I'm sure there is a logical explanation why the output of the 4th and 6th command line is different than in the other cases, but I fail to find ...
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How to change SYSIN and SYSOUT (curses mode) for a background process to another terminal session (screen utility)?
I currently run an background process started by a deamon process. It has no terminal and works fine as it doesn't have any screen i/o. It is started via a shell script which I can change. The shell ...
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How do i change the behavior of **clear** on CentOS7 such that it will NOT clear scrollback buffers on xterm?
I have a VM running CentOs 7.2.1511. It includes ncurses 5.9.
I use both MobaXterm and PuTTY.
Whenever I run the clear command, the scrollback buffers are cleared automatically as well.
This ...
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parallel install ncurses-6 & ncurses-5 on fedora 24
I just upgraded from fedora 23 to 24, and it broke some binaries I have on my system that were not installed from fedora's repositories, due to the ncurses upgrade from version 5 to version 6:
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FreeBSD SSH terminal windows
When I run a ncurses-based tool, say nano, in a Linux/OSX SSH session and then close it, the terminal session is back with the history and everything.
But if I start nano in a FreeBSD SSH session and ...
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Why is 256 color display not working with linux console, while it does with screen?
I am working on a python program with a text-mode GUI based on urwid. urwid is a library to create ncurses-style programs with python.
Operating System is CentOS 7.
Everything works fine under '...
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How can I run ncurses program with 256 colors in the gnome terminal?
My problem:
I want to run ncurses in 256-colors mode in the gnome terminal.
I already know that you can turn on this color mode with:
# export TERM=xterm-256color
But this solution is not ...
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Why does YaST now show lines as lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq?
Today my YaST started rendering lines like this:
It makes it difficult to read.. Any idea what this is about and how I can fix it? I tried rebooting, no dice.
Edit -- here's my PuTTY config:
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Convert htop output to HTML
I wish to view the output of htop as a web page (and possibly add interactivity later on) and I expected this to be readily available (e.g. ncurses capture-screen-and-convert-to-html), but I had no ...
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tgetent() not found while compiling vim
Currently I'm trying to install the YouCompleteMe extension to my vim setup, but it requires my vim to have the version of 7.3.584 or higher. The vim shipped with my Ubuntu 12.10 is 7.3.547, so I had ...
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Mac -- Macports/Wine errors: NCurses library and Fontconfig
I've been trying to get Wine on my Mac to run some of my old PC games.
I used Macports to install it, but it didn't work right away. I followed This
tutorial, and then looked around a bit on the web ...
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