Tag Archives: terminal

csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap

Upon logging into my remote server with ssh, I started getting:

csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.
csh: using dumb terminal settings.

There is no rxvt-unicode entry in /etc/termcap. You should specify one, but if you’re lazy, you can just

setenv TERM xterm

in your ~/.cshrc.

P.S. Nah, this doesn’t help. You have to put that line in /etc/csh.cshrc (via).

urxvt (rxvt-unicode): port installation defaults

cd /usr/ports/x11/rxvt-unicode
sudo make -DWITHOUT_PERL -DWITHOUT_XIM -DWITHOUT_UNICODE3 -DWITHOUT_MENUBAR \
-DWITHOUT_RXVT_SCROLLBAR -DWITHOUT_NEXT_SCROLLBAR -DWITHOUT_XTERM_SCROLLBAR \
-DWITHOUT_PLAIN_SCROLLBAR -DWITH_HALF_SHADOW \
-DWITHOUT_LINESPACE -DWITHOUT_TERMINFO -DWITHOUT_AFTERIMAGE
sudo make install -DWITHOUT_PERL -DWITHOUT_XIM -DWITHOUT_UNICODE3 -DWITHOUT_MENUBAR \
-DWITHOUT_RXVT_SCROLLBAR -DWITHOUT_NEXT_SCROLLBAR -DWITHOUT_XTERM_SCROLLBAR \
-DWITHOUT_PLAIN_SCROLLBAR -DWITH_HALF_SHADOW \
-DWITHOUT_LINESPACE -DWITHOUT_TERMINFO -DWITHOUT_AFTERIMAGE

vim: port installation defaults

Not to forget:

cd /usr/ports/editors/vim
sudo make -D WITHOUT_X11
sudo make install -D WITHOUT_X11

Otherwise, it installs GTK 1.2.