From: Andrew Hewus Fresh Subject: Re: urvt vs xterm To: ports@openbsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 19:35:27 -0700 On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 10:09:00PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > I've recently started using urxvt instead of xterm everywhere, > in major part because xterm was losing glyphs, and after a few months > of not figuring out why (and asking the guys in charge of X11 and drm > I didn't get any useful answer for my setup) I decided to switch. > > One minor peeve (@afresh1): it would be swell if the perl libraries were > better synched with the ports tree. I started with the urxvt perl flavor, > but unfortunately, bad perl synch wrt libraries left me with no usable > terminal so for now, I'm back with the base system. > > I'm pretty sure the requirements are a bit too stringent and it should be > possible to get back to something that works without having to switch back > to xterm temporarily. > > Baring that, maybe it's possible to make urxvt+perl "soft fail" to "plain" > urxvt in case it can't load the perl runtime ? I don't know anything about urxvt or its perl support. I'd need a lot more detail about what the failure mode is to be able to consider a solution. I expect it to break when perl is upgraded and not sure there is any way around that, other then having the urxvt folks add that "soft fail" feature. l8rZ, -- andrew Software doesn't do what you want it to do, it does what you tell it do. -- Stefan G. Weichinger.