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    heckyel
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Opened by fablamar78 - 24/11/2018
Last edited by heckyel - 27/10/2021

FS#1259 - Garbled display with xfce4-terminal (terminfo)

A very nasty bug I wasn’t able to find an answer to.
I compiled stuff (buildroot) using menuconfig, the menu display was fine in xfce4-terminal (See screenshot #1)
I restarted the config a few days later with the same command :

$ make menuconfig

and this time the display was messed up (See screenshot #2)

After investigation, I noticed a directory (filled with stuff) have been created in my home folder :

.terminfo

I don’t know why. But anyway, if I delete it, then the display is ok again.
I noticed that if I use good old xterm terminal, then the display is fine even if the .terminfo directory is present. (it uses “xterm” instead of xterm-256color)

But, with xfce4-terminal (and others, I tried with gnome-terminal, sakura..), the display is messed up if the .terminfo directory is present in my home folder.

I also noticed that if I run the command in a screen session, the issue is not present.

(I open xfce4-terminal)

$ screen
$ printenv TERM
screen.xterm-256color
$ make menuconfig (or htop, or other program using ncurses)

= display ok

but with default :

(I open xfce4-terminal)

$ printenv TERM
xterm-256color
make menuconfig (or htop, or other program using ncurses)

= display messed up if .terminfo directory is present

So I have no idea why this .terminfo directory is generated. What could trigger its generation ? Is that an issue with ncurses or something else ?

Thanks for your help

Closed by  heckyel
27.10.2021 21:24
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  

Issue cannot be resolved as XFCE was removed in Hyperbola Milky Way 0.4

The content of .terminfo directory is the same as what what the following package provides :

"ncurses-term" https://packages.debian.org/en/stretch/ncurses-term

But this package isn't provided by Hyperbola (or is it integrated to ncurses base ??) so I'm wondering how it ends up in my /home folder.
After further investigation, "buildroot" (https://buildroot.org/) menuconfig seems to trigger the .terminfo directory generation. Because it never happened before.

infocmp -D

/home/fablamar/.terminfo
/usr/share/terminfo

So it seems the generated .terminfo directory conflicts with the system-wide one provided. (/usr/lib/terminfo)... which could maybe explain the display error ?

Indeed.

Setting :

TERMINFO="/usr/lib/terminfo"

in

/etc/environment

fixed the issue !

Tell me if you think it was the correct way to proceed. Is there any "con" doing it that way ?

Admin
Tell me if you think it was the correct way to proceed. Is there any "con" doing it that way ?

I don't know about it since i'm not using XFCE4, but seems that way is correct because we are a distro "do-yourself", however there are some basic features made by us by default, so i'm assigning this task for our debuggers to make testing.

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