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Problem with text color changing constantly

Chris Thompson — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:47:43 -0000

I just downloaded hpterm and compiled it for the first time. I
typed in 'hpterm -e telnet my.host.com', and the hpterm
window appeared on my screen with a white background
and black text, which is fine. The results of the telnet
command display on the screen normally; however, the HP
login prompt then switches to black text with a black
background, thus making it impossible to read. As I type in
my HELLO string, the first few characters then show up
normally as black text with a white background, then the
characters begin switching between black or white
backgrounds for the rest of the HELLO string. This behavior
continues for the rest of the session, with the characters
seemingly randomly switching background and foreground
colors. Sometimes the text will be black on white, sometimes
it will be white on black, or black on black, or white on white.

I noticed that if I type in 'hpterm' without any options, I get a
shell prompt running inside the hpterm window, and the
same color-switching behavior occurs there as well as I type
characters.

I'm running Slackware -current, with KDE 3.4, and QT 3.3.4.

Any help on fixing this problem would be appreciated.
Thank you!

Qt/qmake dependency

david — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:46:26 -0000

The dependency on Qt/qmake seems to be a barrier to
using hpterm in my situation. I'm running Redhat
Enterprise Linux 3.?. (Actually Scientific Linux, an
RHEL clone.) RHEL apparently comes with Qt runtime
libraries installed but qmake is not included. Is qmake
part of the Qt developers package? Do I have to
purchase a Qt license to get qmake? Is qmake the only
additional part I need if I have the Qt runtime
libraries? Can I get qmake by itself? What are my options?

arrows

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:38:47 -0000

when you use the editor vi in unix or in linux
the arrows don't work you must use
hjkl instead of arrows
can you help me ?
thank you in advance
Quintilio Taccetti quinto@ingv.it

Garbage received instead of MPE/XL:

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 03:02:12 -0000

Hi. Finally got Qt downloaded, compiled, etc. Then,
did a make all for hpterm. Success at compile. cp to
/usr/local/bin. Issued an hpterm in an 'ordinary
mortal' window. I got the following error (Solaris 7
Ultra-10 system):

ld.so.1: hpterm: fatal: libX11.so.6.0: open failed: No
such file or directory
Killed

So, I promptly hacked up a symlink and tried again
(probably a foolish attempt):

su -
cd /usr/lib
ln -s ../openwin/lib/libX11.so.4 libX11.so.6.0

When I ran hpterm, I got this:

Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for
device).
Thus no job control in this shell.
t21 hscw1364:~:

inside of a window that looked startlingly like a
700/92 (nice!)

However, when I did an hpterm -h financehp:23 I got
garbage initially, then finally an MPE/XL: prompt. I
logged in, then attempted an nmmgr command. No joy,
block mode failed.

I sure hope this is helpful. Among my duties here, I
am responsible for support our last (!) remaining
HP3000 (I used to support about 80 of them 15 years
ago!) Drop me a line if I can be of further help in
debugging.