Re: Slackware's dialog

Gil AndrĂ© <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:49:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,


On 11 Nov 2014, at 16:29, x y <[email protected]> wrote:

> I recall this being asked before somewhere, but I don't remember what the answer was.
> 
> If you run as root "dialog --title "WARNING" --yesno "BlahBlahBlah." 9 72"
> you will get a nice dialog box in the terminal.
> 
> But, if you run the same command as a user, the colors break on the bottom and right sides of the box.
> 
> What was the fix for this? Or was there one?

???

I have to say I have used dialog many many times, and I have never seen the behaviour you are mentioning…

Are you sure this is not an artifact of the terminal (rxvt/konsole for instance) that you are using?