[SOLVED] Terminals behaving oddly all except xterm
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I was looking for a terminal program with support for transparency. I understand urxvt is the only non DE specific terminal program that supports real transparency, although I have been playing with mrxvt and aterm as well since I could not get urxvt working.
I have not had any luck with urxvt, mrxvt or aterm. Only xterm works properly.
The main problems I am having is that I cannot use vi in any of these programs. None seem to refresh or output properly. curses based programs also give me trouble.
Not to mention I have not been able to get transparency working with urxvt at all. I can force it transparent with fluxbox but that is not what I want.
I don't just want a solution, I want to udnerstand why it doesnt work by default.
Since urxvt, mrxvt and aterm all behave the same way I guess they may be emulating a different terminal type to xterm by default, but I have been unable to see what this is.
After some experimenting, the only line I actually need is : Aterm*termName: xterm
Which I assume makes aterm emulate the same terminal type xterm does. Is there a way to find out what this is, and set it as the default instead of setting aterm to imitate xterm?
Setting a similar line for urxvt and mrxvt does not work, although setting TERM=xterm in either of them does work. I would rather figure out why this happens than just use the easy solution and have them imitate xterm.
Rebuild the alternate terminals without termcap present on the system. Some amy require a tiny one-line patch to get them to link to terminfo instead of termcap. Most can also link to ncurses instead of terminfo.
mrxvt and aterm both have entiries in terminfo, but doing a similar command to above for aterm or mrxvt does not work as they have TERM set to rxvt. Just doing the command for rxvt will work for both of them.
Does anyone know why slackware still uses termcap?
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