Bug 162111

Summary: lynx -use_mouse freezes on start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bertil Askelid <bertil>
Component: lynxAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Bertil Askelid 2005-06-29 22:39:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

lynx -use_mose is unable to start fully but freezes in the middle before comming up.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

lynx-2.8.5-23

How reproducible:

Always.


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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-06-30 11:18:54 UTC 
Works fine here.  Could you describe your problem a bit more fully?
Comment 2 Bertil Askelid 2005-06-30 16:52:33 UTC 
   I've been doing some more digging to recreate exactly what is
   happening and why.

   I can start "lynx -use_mouse" without any problems and full
   functionality in xterm and rxvt. I first start the xterm with the
   command

      xterm +sb -sl 0

   and then manually type the lynx command on the csh command
   line.  Ditto rxvt. No problems.

   However, when I combine the two:

      xterm +sb -sl 0 -e lynx -use_mouse

   I only get a blank xterm screen. Something is happening as I type "q"
   and then "y" to get out of lynx and close the xterm.

   For

      rxvt +sb -sl 0 -e lynx -use_mouse

   the rxvt window shows nothing and reacts to nothing. Has to be killed
   from X.

   Versions:

      lynx-2.8.5-23
      xterm-200-6
      rxvt-2.7.10-1
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2005-06-30 17:46:24 UTC 
Here's what I get.  Both of these work fine:

rxvt +sb -sl 0 -tn xterm -e lynx -use_mouse
xterm +sb -sl 0 -e lynx -use_mouse

If I omit '-tn' from the rxvt command line lynx cannot start because the TERM
environment variable gets set (for some reason) to xterm-debian.

So I still don't see the problem here. :-/
Comment 4 Bertil Askelid 2005-06-30 18:03:55 UTC 
That does it! The "-tn xterm" option added to the rxvt command solved the
problem. For some reason, rxvt set $TERM to rxvt by default. For lynx to work it
has to be xterm as you pointed out.

Thanks! The bug can be closed!