Linux - perfect replacement for desktops

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At Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:47:58PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Tom Aldridge was observed uttering:
> Finally the issue. Wherever the cursor sits in the field, if they arrow 
> right to leave the field or press enter to leave the field -- no 
> problem, but if they arrow up or arrow down to leave the field, wherever 
> the cursor sits, it blanks out the character at that spot. So if in 
> field x they enter 100.00 and press enter fine, but if for whatever 
> reason they return to that field and then arrow up or down while sitting 
> on one of the digits in that field, it blanks out (cosmetically only) 
> the character or digit in that field.

Hmmm.  Is gnome-terminal documented as wanting vt102?  

> I have tried a new version of Gnone terminal on a fedora core 6 box and 
> on an Ubuntu box with the same results. I've tried Putty for linux but 
> can't seem to get the termcap issues correct in terms of Fkeys, and 
> other display issues. I like the old SCOansi keyboard for delete key, 
> etc. If I remember I can get that with Putty but can't get all the Fkeys 
> and the line at line 21 to show correctly "ln = repeat(chr("196"),"80"); 
> show("21","1") ln"
> 
> I've tried Xterm too with incomplete results.

If you're using vt102, I don't wonder.  There is an xterm entry in the fP
termcap file.

However...are you still using colour?  One thing I haven't taken the time
to work out (again...I thought I solved this years ago but can't remember
my fix) is if you use -any- terminal type with colour to PuTTY for
instance, including xterm which it most closely is, the colour drawing is
incomplete at best.

If you're not using colour, I'd suggest switching to xterm.  If you're
using colour, I honestly don't know without downloading a lot of xterms and
compiling them and trying them over Xvnc here--on a system on which they're
not horribly likely to build (equivalent of RH 6.2 at best...Cobalt 4).

That's been a big bugaboo with me under PuTTY, but I just "look around it"
for the content.  It doesn't erase anything like you're talking about, but
it's not optimal.

Have you tried plain old "color-xterm" with "xterm" settings (including
:PV:)?

> So that's it. Any ideas?

Aside from downloading, compiling, and testing a slew of xterms, and then
diving into the termcap code to manually tweak it?  Not really.  I did this
once upon a time, and I know I fixed it for virtual consoles.  I'm not sure
I ever got it for xterms, and I'm pretty sure I never fixed it for PuTTY.

PuTTY -is- closest to xterm, however.  I'd start with that as my base.  (I
know this because I got into a discussion on ncurses-devel once regarding
ncurses performance and misdraws under screen, and they said that since I
was using PuTTY, try xterm as my base term type before using screen [which
institutes its own terminal type] and my problem -did- go away.  It -is-
more compatible.)

Don't suppose you've tried TinyTerm?  I hate Century Software's regular
Term, but it is a commercial solution that should work "or else".  A mutual
acquaintance of ours used to run Term all the time with fP and colour, so
it -should- work.

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