Re: oops... sysinstall from X
From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 10/30/04
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:04:18 +0100 To: Gary Aitken <garya@Dreamchaser.org>
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:25:49AM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> I made the mistake of trying to build and install the gimp port from an
> xterm. When I came back to it, it had started sysinstall to configure
> the ghostscript driver. Sysinstall looks great in an xterm, but
> unfortunately keystrokes aren't mapped in a manner which works. e.g.
> The down arrow is echoed as "^[0B", and while normal characters such as
> 'x' and space are echoed properly, the sysinstall program apparently
> isn't seeing them -- the characters are simply echoed over (replacing)
> the text sysinstall has painted on the display, instead of "doing the
> right thing" such as selecting / deselecting the current item.
>
> Is there some simple way out of this?
> I've still got the xterm up and would like to finish this install.
> Or should I just kill it, exit X, and try make from a normal vty?
That's not sysinstall -- it just uses the same SLANG libraries as
sysinstall does. Even in an X-term, the navigation should work with
the arrow keys, but failing that, hitting tab should let you cycle
through all of the options.
Cheers,
Matthew
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