From 9f9ec7a6a9588675060d31d508a31d1003335f48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "chess.griffin" <chess.griffin@18908463-3d48-0410-af50-6b38eb639d31>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:38:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] change the dialog refresh workaround function so it simply
 sets TERM=xterm-color, which seems to fix most issues; any other issues will
 go in a yet to be created doc KNOWN_ISSUES; thanks to Mauro for this fix

---
 src/usr/sbin/sbopkg | 21 ++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg b/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg
index 60582da..8ae49aa 100755
--- a/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg
+++ b/src/usr/sbin/sbopkg
@@ -40,24 +40,11 @@
 dialog_refresh_workaround() {
     # Dialog has refresh problems on some terminals (currently known are some
     # rxvt-based terminals and screen sessions), preventing correct dialogs
-    # rendering.  This function enables a workaround, consisting of a
-    # background task sending SIGWINCH to any new dialog instance.  Despite
-    # being probably harmless on "good" terminals, this function should really
-    # be called only on problematic ones.
+    # rendering.
+    # It turns out that forcing TERM=xterm-color "fixes" at least most of the
+    # issues, so work around them this way.
 
-    DIALOG_REFRESH_WORKAROUND_SBOPKG_PID=$$
-
-    (   # The background task runs in a separate shell
-        OLDDIALOGS=
-        while [[ $(ps h --pid $DIALOG_REFRESH_WORKAROUND_SBOPKG_PID) ]]; do
-            DIALOGS=$(pgrep -x "^dialog$")
-            if [[ "$DIALOGS" != "$OLDDIALOGS" ]]; then
-                [[ "$DIALOGS" ]] && kill -WINCH $DIALOGS
-                OLDDIALOGS="$DIALOGS"
-            fi
-            sleep 0.3
-        done
-    ) &
+    export TERM=xterm-color
 }
 
 crunch() {