oops... sysinstall from X

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:25:49AM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> I made the mistake of trying to build and install the gimp port from an
> xterm.  When I came back to it, it had started sysinstall to configure
> the ghostscript driver.  Sysinstall looks great in an xterm, but
> unfortunately keystrokes aren't mapped in a manner which works.  e.g.
> The down arrow is echoed as "^[0B", and while normal characters such as
> 'x' and space are echoed properly, the sysinstall program apparently
> isn't seeing them -- the characters are simply echoed over (replacing)
> the text sysinstall has painted on the display, instead of "doing the
> right thing" such as selecting / deselecting the current item.
> 
> Is there some simple way out of this?
> I've still got the xterm up and would like to finish this install.
> Or should I just kill it, exit X, and try make from a normal vty?

That's not sysinstall -- it just uses the same SLANG libraries as
sysinstall does.  Even in an X-term, the navigation should work with
the arrow keys, but failing that, hitting tab should let you cycle
through all of the options.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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