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    From Scott Street@1:266/420 to All on Wed Sep 22 16:12:26 2021
    Hi Everyone,

    I'm new to using GoldEd+ on Linux. Everything seems to work perfectly, except, I get a blank screen on startup. In diving into the source, it appears that the blank screen is supposed to be the logo/splash screen - but it seems to fail to put anything on the terminal.

    I've tried both on the local console, or my prefered method of ssh from my Mac (macOS 11.6 terminal & ssh).

    Below is entire golded.conf as I start Golded by running the cmd: "/home/fido/bin/gedlnx -C/home/fido/etc/golded.conf"

    Linux Distro : Gentoo amd64 (up-to-date as of this writing)

    === Cut ===
    UserName Scott Street
    UserName Sysop

    Address 1:266/420.0
    NodePath /home/fido/ftn/nodelist
    Nodelist NODELIST.999
    Origin "-={ The Digital Post }=-"
    JamPath /home/fido/msgbase/
    AreaScan *
    PersonalMail Startup, AllNames
    AreaKeepLast No

    GoldColor /home/fido/etc/gecolor.conf
    GoldKeys /home/fido/etc/goldkeys.cfg

    LookUpNet Yes
    LookUpEcho No
    LookUpLocal No

    UseTZUTC Yes
    UsePid Yes
    UseCharset Yes
    TitleStatus Yes
    RcvDisablesCFM No
    QuoteCtrl No

    AttribsFrq Pvt K/S
    AttribsNet Loc Pvt
    AttribsEcho Loc
    AttricsLocal Loc

    DispAreaNo No
    DispRmFirst Yes
    DispLocalHigh Yes
    DispAutoNext No
    DispPageBar Yes
    DispTabSize 4

    StatusLineHelp NoLogo
    StatusLineClock No

    Editor /usr/bin/vim @file
    EditorFile /tmp/golded.tmp

    ROBOTNAME AreaFix
    ROBOTNAME AreaMgr
    ROBOTNAME AreaLink
    ROBOTNAME FileFix
    ROBOTNAME Raid
    ROBOTNAME GEcho
    ROBOTNAME Allfix
    ROBOTNAME FileScan

    WhoTo All

    QuoteString " SS> "

    ReplyLink Direct
    ReplyLinkList Full
    ReplyLinkFloat Yes
    ReplyLinkShowAlways Yes

    MsgListFirst Yes
    HighlightUnread Yes

    CtrlInfoNet NO
    CtrlInfoEcho TEARLINE, ORIGIN
    CtrlInfoLocal NO

    Logo No
    EmptyTearLine YES

    ScreenBlanker 0
    ScreenSize Auto
    ScreenShadows No

    AreaStart NETMAIL

    ;#### Charset Translations
    XLATCHARSET CP1125 UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/1125_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSET CP437 UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/437_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSET CP850 UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/850_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSET CP865 UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/865_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSET CP866 UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/866_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSET LATIN-1 UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/iso1_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSET KOI8-R UTF-8 /home/fido/etc/golded/koi8_u8.chs
    XLATCHARSETALIAS UTF-8 UTF8

    ;#### AREAS BELOW ###

    areadef NETMAIL "Fidonet Matrix Mail" 0 net Opus /home/fido/msgbase/netmail/

    areadef SYSOP266 "Sysops of Net266" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/sysop266 areadef R13_ELECTION "Region 13 Elections" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/r13_election
    areadef R13SYSOP "Sysops of Region 13" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/r13sysop

    areadef FN_SYSOP "FidoNet Sysops" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/fn_sysop areadef FTSC_PUBLIC "Fido Technical Standards Commmitee" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/ftsc_public
    areadef BINKD "Binkd Mailer Support" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/binkd areadef FIDOTEST "FidoNet Testing Echo" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/fidotest
    areadef FIDONEWS "FidoNet News" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/fidonews areadef GOLDED "Golded Support" 0 echo Jam /home/fido/msgbase/nc/golded
    === Cut ===

    ---
    * Origin: -={ The Digital Post }=- (1:266/420)
  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234 to Scott Street on Thu Sep 23 09:42:15 2021
    22 Sep 2021 16:12, you wrote to All:

    Below is entire golded.conf as I start Golded by running the cmd: "/home/fido/bin/gedlnx -C/home/fido/etc/golded.conf"
    ^^

    Shouldn't there be a blank space after "-C" ?

    Carlos
    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Costa Blanca, Spain (2:341/234)
  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234 to Scott Street on Thu Sep 23 11:22:16 2021
    23 Sep 2021 09:42, I wrote to you:

    Shouldn't there be a blank space after "-C" ?

    Oops, please ignore this (got confused with another editor)

    Carlos
    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Costa Blanca, Spain (2:341/234)
  • From Kai Richter@2:240/77 to Scott Street on Fri Sep 24 07:46:40 2021
    Hello Scott!

    22 Sep 21, Scott Street wrote to All:

    I'm new to using GoldEd+ on Linux. Everything seems to work
    perfectly, except, I get a blank screen on startup.

    Backup your configs.

    Copy gedlnx to an emtpy directory.
    Try gedlnx -install=. (or -install without =.)
    Enter the requested data.
    You should get a minimum golded.cfg, start that minimum cfg with -C.

    If that fixes the problem then there is something wrong in your config.
    Then add your config step by step to the new config.
    If that doesn't work i'm sorry. ;-)

    Regards

    Kai

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7
    * Origin: Monobox (2:240/77)
  • From Fernando Toledo@4:902/26 to Scott Street on Sat Sep 25 15:05:15 2021
    El 22/9/21 a las 17:12, Scott Street escribió:
    Hi Everyone,

    I'm new to using GoldEd+ on Linux. Everything seems to work perfectly, except, I get a blank screen on startup. In diving into the source, it appears that the blank screen is supposed to be the logo/splash screen - but it seems to fail to put anything on the terminal.

    I've tried both on the local console, or my prefered method of ssh from my Mac (macOS 11.6 terminal & ssh).

    Below is entire golded.conf as I start Golded by running the cmd: "/home/fido/bin/gedlnx -C/home/fido/etc/golded.conf"

    Linux Distro : Gentoo amd64 (up-to-date as of this writing)


    i remember these issus too but i think taht was solved when I had
    configure the xlats options:


    // typical character translation
    xlatpath /home/ragnarok/fido/charset

    include xlats.cfg

    xlatimport ibmpc
    xlatcharset ibmpc latin-1 ibm_iso.chs
    xlatcharset latin-1 ibmpc iso_ibm.chs
    xlatcharset latin-1 latin-1 iso_iso.chs
    xlatcharset ibmpc ibmpc ibm_ibm.chs
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
    * Origin: Dock Sud BBS - http://bbs.docksud.com.ar (4:902/26)