additional terminal IO question

If I try using pktgen theme mode (-T) or unmodified, without commenting out some of the stuff I mentioned I disabled for debugging in the previous thread, it seems like it sets the pktgen prompt to be invisible (black text on black??? or I'm not sure just want) on my TTY which has a black background.

If you quit the app it does not reset the colors so my shell is also invisible, until I blindly run the reset command.

Did anybody else try it on a black background? Did anybody else see these issues with it as well?

Matthew.

Black background gets me to the blind reset as well. Pktgen is the only tab I keep with non black background..

If I try using pktgen theme mode (-T) or unmodified, without commenting out some of the stuff I mentioned I disabled for debugging in the previous thread, it seems like it sets the pktgen prompt to be invisible (black text on black??? or I'm not sure just want) on my TTY which has a black background.

If you quit the app it does not reset the colors so my shell is also invisible, until I blindly run the reset command.

Did anybody else try it on a black background? Did anybody else see these issues with it as well?

Matthew.

Quoted 5 lines · dev on behalf of Matthew Hall

If I try using pktgen theme mode (-T) or unmodified, without commenting out some of the stuff I mentioned I disabled for debugging in the previous thread, it seems like it sets the pktgen prompt to be invisible (black text on black??? or I'm not sure just want) on my TTY which has a black background.

I am not sure what you changed for debugging, but on my Ubuntu 15.10 using MATE Terminal 1.10.1 with a black background and white text the cursor remains as white after I quit Pktgen. If you have a crash for some reason the cmdline code leaves the TTY in a raw mode no echo, which is just like no cursor. I have to also do ’stty sane’ to get echo/cursor back on. Is this what is happing to you?

I created a white-black.theme I was using and did not try to make it pretty as I use a black on light yellow background. Here is the theme. theme default white none off
theme top.spinner cyan none bold
theme top.ports green none bold
theme top.page white none off
theme top.copyright yellow none off
theme top.poweredby blue none bold
theme sep.dash blue none off
theme sep.text white none off
theme stats.port.label blue none bold
theme stats.port.flags blue none bold
theme stats.port.status green none bold
theme stats.dyn.label yellow none off
theme stats.dyn.values yellow none off
theme stats.stat.label magenta none off
theme stats.stat.values white none off
theme stats.total.label red none bold
theme stats.colon blue none bold
theme pktgen.prompt green none off
cls

Please give more details next time to help me understand the problem like OS type, terminal type used, versions, …

Thanks
++Keith

Quoted 9 lines

If you quit the app it does not reset the colors so my shell is also invisible, until I blindly run the reset command.

Did anybody else try it on a black background? Did anybody else see these issues with it as well?

Matthew.

Regards,
Keith

If I try using pktgen theme mode (-T) or unmodified, without commenting out some of the stuff I mentioned I disabled for debugging in the previous thread, it seems like it sets the pktgen prompt to be invisible (black text on black??? or I'm not sure just want) on my TTY which has a black background.

If you quit the app it does not reset the colors so my shell is also invisible, until I blindly run the reset command.

Did anybody else try it on a black background? Did anybody else see these issues with it as well?

Matthew.

From: Arnon Warshavsky <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 9:04 AM
To: "Keith Wiles (Intel)" <[email protected]<mailto:
[email protected]>>
Cc: Matthew Hall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, " [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PKTGEN] additional terminal IO question

Keith,
On my end I'm ending with black on black with Konsole 2.3.3 on Centos 6.5 starting as green on black.

I changed my console to green on black and got the same results. When I quit Pktgen the cursor color and text return to green. I can not set the cursor color different from the text color on this terminal. This maybe a problem with kconsole. Using xterm the cursor and text are restored as well.

I would need to install a Centos 6.5 with Konsole. I can run konsole, but the setting will not allow me to adjust the colors most likely it needs more then just konsole installed with this MATE window system. Even in this default state of black on white the cursor returns as black with black text, which could be the problem???

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Wiles, Keith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Quoted 5 lines · On 1/20/16, 11:53 PM, "dev on behalf of Matthew Hall" <…

If I try using pktgen theme mode (-T) or unmodified, without commenting out some of the stuff I mentioned I disabled for debugging in the previous thread, it seems like it sets the pktgen prompt to be invisible (black text on black??? or I'm not sure just want) on my TTY which has a black background.

I am not sure what you changed for debugging, but on my Ubuntu 15.10 using MATE Terminal 1.10.1 with a black background and white text the cursor remains as white after I quit Pktgen. If you have a crash for some reason the cmdline code leaves the TTY in a raw mode no echo, which is just like no cursor. I have to also do ’stty sane’ to get echo/cursor back on. Is this what is happing to you?

I created a white-black.theme I was using and did not try to make it pretty as I use a black on light yellow background. Here is the theme. theme default white none off
theme top.spinner cyan none bold
theme top.ports green none bold
theme top.page white none off
theme top.copyright yellow none off
theme top.poweredby blue none bold
theme sep.dash blue none off
theme sep.text white none off
theme stats.port.label blue none bold
theme stats.port.flags blue none bold
theme stats.port.status green none bold
theme stats.dyn.label yellow none off
theme stats.dyn.values yellow none off
theme stats.stat.label magenta none off
theme stats.stat.values white none off
theme stats.total.label red none bold
theme stats.colon blue none bold
theme pktgen.prompt green none off
cls

Please give more details next time to help me understand the problem like OS type, terminal type used, versions, …

Thanks
++Keith

Quoted 9 lines

If you quit the app it does not reset the colors so my shell is also invisible, until I blindly run the reset command.

Did anybody else try it on a black background? Did anybody else see these issues with it as well?

Matthew.

Regards,
Keith

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Keith,
For the record, on my end (can only speak for myself) this is not a real problem.
I work around it by using a different theme and live with it happily ever after.
I just provided the input since I encountered it.

/Arnon

Quoted 7 lines · Arnon Warshavsky

Keith,
For the record, on my end (can only speak for myself) this is not a real problem.
I work around it by using a different theme and live with it happily ever after.
I just provided the input since I encountered it.

Quoted 1 line

/Arnon

For me, breaking stuff with a black background to gain questionably useful colors and/or themes seems like more overhead for cognition of the code for not much benefit.

This is going to break the tool people who use a Linux standard framebuffer with no X also, isn't it?

Matthew.

Quoted 8 lines · Arnon Warshavsky

Keith,
For the record, on my end (can only speak for myself) this is not a real problem.
I work around it by using a different theme and live with it happily ever after.
I just provided the input since I encountered it.

/Arnon

For me, breaking stuff with a black background to gain questionably useful colors and/or themes seems like more overhead for cognition of the code for not much benefit.

This is going to break the tool people who use a Linux standard framebuffer with no X also, isn't it?

Matthew.

Hi Matthew,
Every software has bugs. pktgen is a great tool and we appreciate it as is.

I would prefer we discuss a patch rather that questioning a functionality implemented way ago...

Andriy