Bug 91596
| Summary: | whiptail: --infobox doesn't work in an xterm | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry> |
| Component: | newt | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | srevivo |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=55182 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-08-15 21:59:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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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. |
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: