Terminal troubles
Bs0Dd opened this issue ยท 5 comments
I built several programs on C and ncurses and discovered a couple of unpleasant problems.
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Environment variable TERMINFO is empty.
For this reason, the program with ncurses cannot find a folder with terminfo files and gives an error.
Although terminfo is present in the system in the folder/usr/share/terminfo.
Therefore, I think you should configure the system to assign the path to the variable. -
Terminal type is incorrect.
In the TERM environment variable, the VT100 terminal is set. This also causes problems for programs on ncurses.
If you run the program, it will be B/W and the arrows buttons, Home, Insert and others will not work.
Alas, none of the terminal files in terminfo are fully compatible with the terminal in OC2. I did not work with terminfo before, but I tried to write a file for this terminal. I do not know that all attributes are correct, but I tested it with a pair of programs and games on ncurses and did not find problems with I/O.
I think the file should be included in the system and change the type of terminal in TERM. -
The terminal does not support the pseudographic, withdrawing the letter instead of special characters, which looks not very beautiful. At first I thought that the problem is in Sedna, but in the other terminals everything is displayed adequately.
TERMINFO env var is now set, and the terminal emulator has gotten a lot of fixes.
ESC ( 0 (special graphics) is something I may look into at a later time.
Probably won't add support for special graphics on the terminal, since for fancy graphics there's the projector now, so closing this.
Aight, then I agree; TERMINFO should recieve a definition, and optionally, Prompt Strings should be customised with ANSI colour codes.