Scrambled text occasionally in CLI and ncurses interfaces
by burning from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55RK3)
Sometimes the text outputted in my CLI briefly uses a strange character set for a word or two making the text rather impossible to read. And I get a similarly related effect in any ncurses interfaces such as SBopkg where the borders of the text boxes seem to be overflowing with these unusual characters.
I've attached some pictures so you can see just how I mean.
I realize that using TERM=xterm before I run something like sbopkg can temporarily resolve this issue for the session that its active, but I'd like to find a permanent fix. For what it's worth, this problem only started around the time I upgraded from 14.2 to current.
And I'm curious; how does changing the TERM variable from linux to something like xterm fix it?
edit: apparently the images are too large to upload. I'll see if I can upload to a 3rd party image hosting site.
I've attached some pictures so you can see just how I mean.
I realize that using TERM=xterm before I run something like sbopkg can temporarily resolve this issue for the session that its active, but I'd like to find a permanent fix. For what it's worth, this problem only started around the time I upgraded from 14.2 to current.
And I'm curious; how does changing the TERM variable from linux to something like xterm fix it?
edit: apparently the images are too large to upload. I'll see if I can upload to a 3rd party image hosting site.