Re: Solved Re: ncurses6.2 in Ubuntu 20.04 - typing not visible

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:49:11PM +0100, Tjareson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I found the error causing the issue.
> 
> Somehow subwin returned a null value, as coordinates were outside the
> main window.
> For some reason this didn't happen in ncurses versions before 6.2, as
> this failure in my source code never cause a problem until ncurses 6.2.

without seeing your source code, there's nothing to analyze.

subwindow limits haven't changed in quite a while - see attached.
> 
> I've corrected that and now it works.
> 
> Were there more rigid checks implemented related to parameters of subwin?
> 
> Anyways, it is solved. :-)
> 
> Tjareson
> 
> 
> On 12.01.21 11:20, Tjareson wrote:
> > Hi Stian,
> > 
> > I've tried export TERM=gnome-256color, but the behavior is exactly the
> > same.
> > 
> > Also if I use xterm instead of the gnome terminal I have the same issues.
> > 
> > The curses.h in /usr/include shows version 6.2, so this seem to match
> > as well the installed libraries.
> > 
> > Tjareson
> > 
> > 
> > On 12.01.21 10:37, Stian Skjelstad wrote:
> > > Hi Tjareson
> > > 
> > > Have you tried setting TERM to gnome-terminal instead of xterm?
> > > 
> > > Have you tested with other terminals?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Stian
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2021, 10:30 Tjareson, <tjareson@gmx.de
> > > <mailto:tjareson@gmx.de>> wrote
> > > 
> > >     echo $TERM shows:
> > >     xterm-256color
> > > 
> > >     Other applications like htop, mc etc. are running without any issues.
> > > 
> > >     It looks like as it doesn't recognized the right terminal type or
> > >     something like this. But then, why are apps like vi working w/o any
> > >     issues in the same terminal?
> > > 

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