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. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Works fine here. Could you describe your problem a bit more fully?
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
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. :-/
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!