[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando
>> <sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu>  wrote:
>>> I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I
>>> reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing.
>>> If I start mc in the screen nothings happen. I can see the cursos is
>>> stop before the last line and waiting...
>>> Generally first time the mc is start and I can work with. But, random
>>> long time later the mc is start doing this stupid behavior what I
>>> wrote upper. This thing is independent what I did. Last time is
>>> started after I use vim to edit an file. Yesterday started after I
>>> write in mc's command line 'df -h' and hit Enter.
>>
>> This is a very old post, but I want to say I am experiencing the same
>> problems with screen and mc (even after I initially replied saying I
>> didn't have it :). Did you ever find a solution?
>>
>
> I dunno if my problem is the same as yours, but it may not be just mc.
> screen has been crapping out on me lately, and also randomly, like
> described above, when I use some of the shell scripts that I wrote. It
> only happens with interactive scripts that display a menu using
> 'dev-util/dialog'. Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't:
> after the previous dialog clears the screen, screen just sits there
> blinking and not loading the next one.
>
> I'd be interested in a solution too, if there is one.

If you start screen, then do "export TERM=xterm", does that fix the issues?