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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 09/11/2009 08:08 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>> 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?
>
> So far that seems to fix it for me! But it's a very random and
> non-reproducible error so only time will tell. mc froze on startup for
> me just now (with TERM=screen) 5 times in a row; set TERM=xterm and mc
> started without problem 5 times in a row. So that's a good sign, I
> think.
>
> Thanks!

I use that trick to get mouse support in mc under screen.  Just thought 
it might solve even more issues.