[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#445802: Bug#445802: alsamixer: ugly ASCII faux-box drawing characters in screen.

[Trent W. Buck]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Trent W. Buck [090404 12:28 +1100]
> > To get nice box drawing characters in GNU Screen instead of the ASCII
> > fallback, I have added the following filthy kludge to my .bashrc:
> > 
> >     case "$TERM" in
> >         screen*) alias alsamixer="TERM=xterm alsamixer" ;;
> >     esac
> > 
> > I'd still appreciate this issue being fixed properly upstream.
> 
> This isn't a alsa bug. It's an screen issue which has to be
> configured by user.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.  Are you suggesting that screen doesn't
advertise support for line-drawing characters in its terminfo entry?