bce capability in xterm-xfree86

Michal Moskal malekith at pld-linux.org
Mon Oct 14 02:49:14 CEST 2002


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:44:14AM +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Michal Moskal wrote:
> 
> > infocmp xterm-xfree86 shows bce capability. I have two questions:
> >   1) what terminal (beside gnome terminal from gnome2) use xterm-xfree86
> >   2) what does exactly bce mean (any terminfo wizard here?)
> 
> RTFM: terminfo(5).

       back_color_erase              bce        ut        screen erased with 
       							  background color

Well... and what's that?

> > I ask it, bacause gnome-terminal doesn't seem to support it (at least
> > search option in otak, that is implemented using ncurses functions
> > only, clutters the screen iff the option is present).
> > 
> > I suggest removing it from our terminfo.
> 
> Sorry .. removing what ? bce ?
> Try use /dev/random for removing another term sequence from terminal
> description :->

If the only terminal that uses xterm-xfree86 doesn't support it...

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