Re: lynx-dev annoying blinking of lynx with ncurses

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I used to compile lynx with slang but, this time,
> I try lynx with ncurses.  It is fine because it works
> well with -use_mouse on kterm.
>
> But I found that lynx with ncurses blinks very much
> than that with slang, for example, when I input one letter
> (or character?) in text field (or form?) it blinks.
> This is really annoying and it never occured with slang
> version lynx.
>
> Is this well-known already and difficult to fix?

I think it depends on the page you're trying to view (there are some
changes that people made to solve some not-very-well-specified problems
with repainting after displaying CJK).  I can take a look at it if you
can describe the conditions (there may be a better fix, maybe not - I
don't know).

>
> My system is;
>
> Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.9 and lynx 2.8.5dev.3
> slang1         1.4.4
> libncurses5    5.2.20010318
> (ncurses 5.2 of 2001/03/18 version?)
>
> Best regards,            2001.10.11
>
>

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