MC and rxvt

[Frank McCormick]

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:53:42 +1100
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:27:00 -0500
> Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > rxvt-unicode is not in the repositories. The rxvt thats in is the one
> > giving me problems. rxvt-unicode used to be part of the package but
> > someone has made some changes. Too bad. Its my favorite term.
> 
> peter at prospero:~ $ apt-cache search rxvt unicode
> rxvt-unicode - RXVT-like terminal emulator with Unicode support
> rxvt-unicode-lite - RXVT-like terminal emulator with basic Unicode support
> rxvt-unicode-ml - multi-lingual terminal emulator with Unicode support for
> X11
> 
> peter at prospero:~ $ apt-cache policy rxvt-unicode
> rxvt-unicode:
>   Installed: 5.6-1
>   Candidate: 5.6-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 5.6-1 0
>         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> I'm using it as we speak - the command is " urxvt "

Well it's a long story but it doesn't involve rxvt but midnight
commander- I **had** an entry for breezy backports in my source liist
and apt upgraded m-c behind my back to the backported version which is
the one that was giving me trouble. Needless to say mc is now pinned to
the older OFFICIAL version which runs fine almost anywhere.

Thanks for help but it was the fact the backport ran fine in xterm
which set me off on the wrong track. Yet another reason to be carefull
enabling backports, even semi-official ones.

This whole scenario started with a huge error on my part which forced
me to re-install breezy. What a pain.

Cheers