Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 91596
whiptail: --infobox doesn't work in an xterm
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:05:09 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030430 Galeon/1.3.4 Debian/1.3.4.20030509-1 Description of problem: --infobox is almost useless in an xterm, because whiptail writes to the other screen xterm makes available, and switches back on exit. Thus, the infobox that was just displayed disappears. I don't know if this is doable with slang, but in theory, --infobox shouldn't do that -- instead, it should write directly to stdout, without switching screens. Then when it exits, the infobox display would remain on screen, as it is meant to. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): newt-0.51.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. whiptail --infobox something 2. 3. Actual Results: doesn't show things on xterm Additional info:
Was not able to reproduce using either xterm (in XFree86-4.3.0-2), gnome-terminal 2.2.1-3 (with vte 0.11.9-3), and using newt 0.51.4 Note that i used the dialog interface to whiptail to produce the infobox, with the required height and width.