Created attachment 219329 [details] patch to port Port seems to work fine with base ncurses.
Yes, mixertui can use the ncurses in base but I chose to use port-ncurses in mainstream https://gitlab.com/alfix/mixertui/-/commit/6bae3d131f26cd043ea68df2ef8ffbf88b865cf4 My problem is with the XFCE Terminal render: base ncurses has faded colours and does not show bold characters (xterm seems working nice), others have the same render: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mixer-application.77153/#post-479506 Anyway the big problem is 'responsiveness': base ncurses refreshes re-printing down the screen: the render is horrible, the port version is perfect: https://twitter.com/alfsiciliano/status/1320465954933977089 However my FreeBSD-CURRENT is 7/8 months old, base ncurses has version 5 while the port version 6 maybe a build world could solve my problem, alternatively a port option to choose the ncurses version could be a solution. I have not a strong opinion about it, feel free to choose the best solution.
A commit references this bug: Author: swills Date: Sun Jan 17 20:05:58 UTC 2021 New revision: 561866 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/561866 Log: audio/mixertui: allow base ncurses where appropriate PR: 250835 Approved by: Alfonso S. Siciliano <alfix86@gmail.com> (maintainer) Changes: head/audio/mixertui/Makefile
Committed a fix, thanks for the comment.