[gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

[gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi there,

I've been wondering for a long time why is this happening, and I
couldn't find a reason, so here's my question.

When I sometimes use my Gentoo 2006.0 (or now 2006.1) minimal live-cd
to do some tasks, I appreciate that if I enter into my root
/usr/src/linux and run 'make menuconfig' ncurses paint lines
perfectly, and everything is showed as should.

I haven't got X installed, it is a terminal computer. When I run (now
in my system, not with live-cd running) for example 'mp3blaster'
[ncurses based app], or 'tmsnc' it looks as if there not redrawing as
they should.

But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those apps
and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I run 'make
menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel, I see that all
those lines that were showed smoothly with my live-cd now are
malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not pretty.

I am using vesafb-tng, with a ~x86 system. I do use bootsplash (well,
splashutils and friends), but if I don't load it [I have another grub
option that does not start it] it happens the same.

I don't know what issues are happening into my ncurses libs.

Thank you for your attention,
Rafael Fernandez Lopez.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

[Benno Schulenberg]

Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those
> apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I
> run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel,
> I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my
> live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not
> pretty.

Maybe a locale issue?  Does 'LC_ALL=C make menuconfig' show the 
same?  If so, select and paste such a screen into your mail.

Benno

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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

[Rafael Fernández López]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those
> > apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I
> > run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel,
> > I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my
> > live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not
> > pretty.
> 
> Maybe a locale issue?  Does 'LC_ALL=C make menuconfig' show the 
> same?  If so, select and paste such a screen into your mail.

It seems that it didn't fix the problem. I am not sure if it is a
locales issue. Here are two screenshots:

http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses1.JPG
http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses2.JPG

I am using unicode in my USE, and my encoding is es_ES.UTF-8. Yes, I
have set /etc/env.d/02locale to that encoding.

Thank you,
Rafael Fernandez Lopez.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses seems to behave in a strange manner

[Rafael Fernández López]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:33:18PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > > But there is more: I thought that maybe it was a problem of those
> > > apps and that they weren't as polished as they should, but when I
> > > run 'make menuconfig' to update some kind of thing of my kernel,
> > > I see that all those lines that were showed smoothly with my
> > > live-cd now are malformed and dialogs are just ugly, and not
> > > pretty.
> > 
> > Maybe a locale issue?  Does 'LC_ALL=C make menuconfig' show the 
> > same?  If so, select and paste such a screen into your mail.
> 
> It seems that it didn't fix the problem. I am not sure if it is a
> locales issue. Here are two screenshots:
> 
> http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses1.JPG
> http://www.maestroprogramador.com/ncurses2.JPG
> 
> I am using unicode in my USE, and my encoding is es_ES.UTF-8. Yes, I
> have set /etc/env.d/02locale to that encoding.
> 

Well, it seems that it is a ncurses bug. I've searched and found bug
number 106820 in gentoo bugzilla if you are interested.

Thanks,
Rafael Fernández López.

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