x11/xterm-227 does not like FreeBSD

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET ml at t-b-o-h.net
Thu Jul 26 15:39:23 UTC 2007


Hi,

	I didn't seem to notice any problems in 227, but did upgrade to
228. Having a cut/paste issue though, but not sure if its X, window
manager, or xterm (Since I did the Xorg upgrade). What part of the whole
system actually does cut/pastes?

			Thanks, Tuc

> 
> I noticed this too but it was followed by an upgrade to 228 which
> seems to fix it
> 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:11:18PM -0700, Chris Timmons wrote:
> 
>   
>   Greetings,
>   
>   When I upgraded to x11/xterm-227, I noticed that "rows" and "columns" as 
>   reported to the terminal device by xterm were set to 0:
>   
>   	system:/home/cwt/xterm-227> stty all
>   	speed 38400 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns;
>   
>   Terminal applications would not properly recognize the window size until I 
>   re-sized the window manuall.
>   
>   After doing some research I found this in the xterm-228 release notes:
>   
>   	# amend changes to handshake in patch #226  to accommodate
>   	  Solaris, which relies on the extra setting of the terminal size
>   	  after I/O initialization. Do this by adding new resource
>   	  ptySttySize, which is false for Linux and MacOS X, i.e., true
>   	  for for Solaris and other SVR4 platforms, as well as FreeBSD
>   	 (reports by David Wood, Renato Botelho).
>   
>   You may want to hold off on that 'portupgrade -a' that you know wasn't a 
>   good idea to begin with until the port is upgraded :)
>   
>   -Chris
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