[winGRASS] Terminal Error

[Andreas Lange]

Hi Malcolm,

thanks for the fix, this worked. The Xinstall.sh had some more error
messages, but i noticed nothing missing until now.

I hope that in the not to far future the keyboard management will work
too. It is still flawed. 

cu,

Andreas


Malcolm Blue wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> It looks like there is a command in the Xinstall.sh for XFree86 that didn't
> run correctly and which should set up the xterm entries.
> 
> In a Cygwin bash command shell execute:
> 
> tic /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap      //(Xinstall.sh has
> xterm.terminfo)
> 
> This should set up the right xterm definitions so that grass will run
> correctly in XFree86 with TERM=xterm.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it [mailto:wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it]On
> Behalf Of Malcolm Blue
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:27 PM
> To: Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de; Taravudh Tipdecho
> Cc: wingrass at grass.itc.it
> Subject: RE: [winGRASS] Terminal Error
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've finally upgraded Cygwin, Xfree86 and Grass for the first time since
> April.  I had the same error message that Taravudh reported.
> 
> To fix this:  Look in /usr/lib/terminfo/x  to see what the xterm* options
> are.
> 
> I tried xterm-xf86-v40 and it seems to be working.  Use
> 'TERM=xterm-xf86-v40'.  I don't think that this is the best solution since
> g.list reports 'WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional', even though it
> seems to work.  We might need to experiment with the choices a bit more.
> 
> tcltkgrass operates strangely but I think that's because of twm.  I think
> I'll also check around for another window manager for Cygwin/XFree86.
> Perhaps LessTif mwm?
> 
> In the meantime, try the above to get the monitors working.  Let the list
> know if you find an xterm terminal definition that doesn't result in
> warnings. ;)
> 
> Malcolm
> 

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