Re: Cursor problems with some applications in linux console

[David Woodfall]

On Monday 15 October 2018 21:29,
Dave Woodfall <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> On Monday 15 October 2018 21:26,
> Jostein Berntsen <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> >
> > What do you get for output when running "echo $TERM" in the plain linux
> > console?
> >
> > Can you get input from this page?
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-16.html
> >
> > and this?
> >
> > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/220330/hide-and-unhide-cursor-with-tput
> >
> > Jostein
>
> Thanks for the links.
>
> TERM is set to 'linux', or 'screen.linux' in screen when I mostly use
> those apps.
>
> tput cnorm sets the cursor back to the default, so maybe cnorm is
> being set. According to infocmp for linux, cnorm is set to \E?25h.
> Screen has an extra \E[34h at the start. I'll experiment a bit and
> see what happens if I change it.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but setting termcapinfo seems to
have no effect. I tried to get all possible combinations with:

termcapinfo linux cnorm=\E[?34h\E[?3c
termcapinfo screen cnorm=\E[?34h\E[?3c
termcapinfo screen.linux cnorm=\E[?34h\E[?3c

But in screen infocmp | grep cnorm still shows:

cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h

Isn't it meant to show the changed setting? I tried running mutt and
finch, but they still reset the cursor.

The first line of infocmp:

#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file:
#       /usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.linux
screen.linux|screen in linux console,

TERM is screen.linux
Screen version 4.06.02

--
Dave

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