[arch-general] suckless-terminal (st) in community - is there an issue with st-255color terminfo and tmux?

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 19:51:18 UTC 2015


On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, on the upgrade my terminal would not start, and I tracked that
>> down to the default config.h setting termname to 'st-256color'
>>
>> Changing that to 'stterm-256color' means it doesn't crash on startup
>> anymore. It's because I start tmux automatically in terminal.
>>
>> The problem with 'st' is that the name is nigh-on un-google-able...
>> anyone else knows about this issue or has hit it before?
>
> Is your system up-to-date? You need recent ncurses.
>
> % pacman -Q ncurses
> ncurses 6.0-3
> % pacman -Ql ncurses | grep st-256color
> ncurses /usr/share/terminfo/s/st-256color


Forgot to mention, I DO have st-256color (latest ncurses installed
since 17th Sep), it just doesn't work in tmux....


More information about the arch-general mailing list