Re: oops... sysinstall from X

From: Gary Aitken (garya_at_Dreamchaser.org)
Date: 10/30/04

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    Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:54:43 -0600
To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>

    Already tried tabbing, but it doesn't work; it just tabs off the end of
    the line. Out past the confines of the config painted window, to the
    edge of the xterm window. Any other ideas?

    Thanks,

    Gary

    Matthew Seaman wrote:
    > 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.

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