[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #2397] (Feedback) xterm window content cleared after man(1) exit

John Marino via Redmine bugtracker-admin at leaf.dragonflybsd.org
Wed Aug 8 16:07:14 PDT 2012


Issue #2397 has been updated by John Marino.

Status changed from New to Feedback

This patch fixes the issue for me:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~marino/0002-xterm-Remove-ability-to-restore-console-after-man-le.patch

I touched /usr/src/lib/libnurses/libncurses/Makefile after applying it, then ran "make -j 8 quickworld && make installworld".
After that, man(1) and the pagers don't restore the screen after running.

If you confirm, I'll commit the patch.
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Bug #2397: xterm window content cleared after man(1) exit
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2397

Author: Francois Tigeot
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


Starting with commit 3ac91e86fba7d34199699a87e1ff109aacc8eec4 "ncurses: move USE_GETCAP, update README files", xterm now clears its window when the end of a man page is reached and the man(1) program exits.

The behavior makes it impossible to read a complete man page without piping the output to less(1), which is very annoying.

setting TERM=cons25 in xterm can be used as a workaround but breaks curse-based applications.


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