Ubuntu Forums Archive Viewer

Rxvt-Unicode Termcap FreeBSD

Archived thread 1036694 from BSD. Markdown source: BSD/thread_1036694_Rxvt-Unicode_Termcap_FreeBSD.md

Original URL About this archive
#1

I decided to switch my file server to FreeBSD due to my getting sick of Debian and its various quirks. It is a command line only system, primarily accessed via SSH. The Rxvt-Unicode package (and the port) requires a whole lot of X dependencies. Being a command line only system, I don't fancy installing graphical deps.

Every application on the system is treating my terminal as a dumb terminal, and applications requiring input refuse to start. The problem (I thought) was the lack of a termcap entry for Rxvt-Unicode. So, I found an entry, and appended it to /usr/share/misc/termcap. I was surprised to find that I had the same problem as before, so I rebooted, upon boot, I opened an SSH connection from my desktop, but the same problem remains.

I remember reading somewhere that I need to put the termcap entry in termcap.src. Due to my very limited BSD experience (literally an hours experience), I have no idea where to find this. I tried searching my local ports with "make search name=termcap", but there were no results.

Any help would be great, Xterm isn't very nice.

#2

jjte said: I decided to switch my file server to FreeBSD due to my getting sick of Debian and its various quirks.

*_It is a command line only system_*, primarily accessed via SSH. The Rxvt-Unicode package (and the port) requires a whole lot of X dependencies. Being a command line only system, I don't fancy installing graphical deps.

Every application on the system is treating my terminal as a dumb terminal, and applications requiring input refuse to start. The problem (I thought) was the lack of a termcap entry for Rxvt-Unicode. So, I found an entry, and appended it to /usr/share/misc/termcap. I was surprised to find that I had the same problem as before, so I rebooted, upon boot, I opened an SSH connection from my desktop, but the same problem remains.

I remember reading somewhere that I need to put the termcap entry in termcap.src. Due to my very limited BSD experience (literally an hours experience), I have no idea where to find this. I tried searching my local ports with "make search name=termcap", but there were no results.

Any help would be great, Xterm isn't very nice. *emphasis mine*

Why are you running X on a command-line only system?

Anyway, this might be useful:

http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#I_need_a_termcap_file_entry

#3

check out sysutils/jfbterm