SUMMARY(2): flaky term defs in vi under sol 7 w/ cde

From: Sweth Chandramouli (sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 19 1999 - 17:40:13 CST


        i have since received two "me too"s, and one suggestion
that COLUMNS and/or LINES were being reset incorrectly; that
person (<negativl@netcom.com>) suggested to use the
/usr/openwin/bin/resize command to reset those values, but that
didn't solve the problem either. i'm currently resigned to
just quit each dtterm in which this happens and open a new one;
if i do get any other suggestions, though, i'll definitely post
yet another summary.

        -- sweth.

On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 03:05:43PM -0500, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com> suggested setting TERM to xterm
> instead of dtterm, and <misha@cibc.com> suggested unsetting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH; neither of these, however, have helped, and the
> problem continues. any other suggestions?
>
> -- sweth.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:06:53PM -0500, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> > i recently upgraded from solaris 2.5.1 to solaris 7. now,
> > whenever i open a terminal window inside a cde session, i find that
> > the terminal definitions seem to get corrupted. they start out fine,
> > but within an hour or two, the window seems to forget where the
> > cursor is, and will start displaying text in the wrong place--often,
> > instead of moving to the next line after a newline, it advances the
> > cursor to the last or next to last position of the current line.
> > this mainly happens when i use vi, but has happened on occasion to
> > the output of an ls or something from the command line. hitting ^l
> > redraws the screen correctly, but the problem always recurs within
> > a few minutes; the only way to "fix" it is to close the window and
> > open another one. (i mostly use dtterm, but i think it happened
> > once when i had an xterm window open as well.)
> >
> > any suggestions as to what is happening?
> >
> > tia,
> > sweth.
>
> --
> Sweth Chandramouli
> IS Coordinator, The George Washington University
> <sweth@gwu.edu> / (202) 994 - 8521 (V) / (202) 994 - 0458 (F)
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Sweth Chandramouli
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<sweth@gwu.edu> / (202) 994 - 8521 (V) / (202) 994 - 0458 (F)
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