Several small issues

[Martin Pohlack]

Hi list,

recently I switched to rxvt-unicode and have some small transition
problems I would like to discuss:

1) I'm using the midnight commander for some task.  In mc '*', '+', and
'-' on the numpad are used to select and deselect a bunch of files.  In
plain urxvt these keys work (regardless of the num-lock state), however
in mc they produce other glyphs: '+' -> 'k', '-' -> 'm', '*' -> 'j'.

How could I fix this?  (Btw., it works in xterm and konsole, so my mc
seems to be fine.)

2) I use minicom to talk to other machines over serial line.  In konsole
and xterm, minicom's history is scrolled out into the konsole's history
(the windows scrollbar size shrinks).  The terminals secondary screen
seems not to be used.  I can scroll the entiry history (the stuff I
typed before minicom and in minicom) using Shift-Pg* and the scroll-wheel.

In urxvt, scrolling the history only reveals what I typed before
starting minicom.  Minicoms output is cut on scrolling out.

Fiddling around with the TERM environment variable (xterm, vt100) did
not seem to make a difference.

How could I fix this?


I'm running Gentoo with the following config:

rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v7.0 - released: 2006-01-13
options: perl,xft,styles,combining,unicode3,
  encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,
  fade,XPM,transparent,tint,utmp,XIM,
  scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm,frills,24bit,
  selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,
  cursorBlink,pointerBlank,


My .Xdefaults:

...
! urxvt
URxvt.keysym.Delete:        \033[3~
URxvt.keysym.C-Delete:      \033d
URxvt.keysym.BackSpace:     ^?
URxvt.keysym.C-BackSpace:   ^W

URxvt.background:           black
URxvt.foreground:           #e0e0e0
URxvt.color4:               #2020cd
URxvt.color12:              #4040ff
URxvt.scrollBar_right:      True
URxvt.skipBuiltinGlyphs:    True
URxvt.scrollTtyOutput:      False
URxvt.scrollWithBuffer:     True
URxvt.scrollTtyKeypress:    True
URxvt.saveLines:            4000
URxvt.font:                 xft:Motix_TTF:pixelsize=10
URxvt.geometry:             122x47
...


Cheers,
Martin