Flicker when using nano Editor

  • Hi,

    when i connect to the LE using SSH and open a file with the Editor nano and then hold down a button (cursor or any other key) the screen is flickering.

    It seems to be a problem with nano because this problem doesn't occure with vim or outside nano.

    I have this problem since LE11 (nvidia legacy) but not on LE10.

  • Strange, I could reproduce it at WSL Ubuntu 22.04 too, then reconnected and everything works like it should and I can't reproduce it anymore.

    Something is fishy. Not sure why this happen.

    Can you reliable reproduce it ?

  • I think nano and mc got something in common. ncurses. mc is f...ed up in LE 11 too. I would say that mc on LE11 flickering too up to the point where screen redraw is visible to normal humans.

  • Hi,

    I have just made a satisfying workaround for this. Indeed I extracted these 2 binaries from LE10:

    /usr/bin/nano
    and
    /storage/.kodi/addons/virtual.system-tools/bin/mc-bin

    copied them onto LE11 to my own bin directory /storage/bin/

    as well as updated PATH env in .profile:

    export PATH=/storage/bin:$PATH


    and that's it. works without flicker. CHeers !!