helplog.8: xgterm, RedHat Enterprise WS3, ncurses, garbage on screen

Frank Valdes wrote on Jan 12, 2005

NUMBER:	8
KEYWORDS:	xgterm, RedHat Enterprise WS3, ncurses, garbage on screen
DATE:	Wed Jan 12 10:31:17 MST 2005
FROM:	valdes

Q:	We are running RedHat Enterprise WS3 (Taroon update 4)
	and implot produces garbage on the screen.  We are not using xgterm
	because it requires curses 4 and we only have curses 5

A:	Be sure that you aren't using konsole or gnome-terminal, as neither
	of these implement the textronix tools.  You must use xterm or
	xgterm.  Garbage on the screen is typically due to a mismatch in
	the terminal setting.  If you see the garbled text when usign an
	xterm, then you probably have the terminal set to 'xgterm'.  Edit
	your login.cl file.

	To get xgterm working, there are two things you can try.  There is
	version of x11iraf that is linked against ncurses version 5.  You can
	get that from the following link:

	    ftp://iraf.noao.edu/pub/fitz/x11iraf-v1.3.2-bin.redhat.tar.gz

	The alternative is to create a symbolic link as follows:

	    cd /usr/lib
	    ln -s libncurses.so.5 libncurses.so.4

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