GraphicalTools: Does not run on OpenSUSE because of ncurses incompatibility

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Steps to reproduce

When running Out-ConsoleGridview on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (latest version) I get the following error: Out-ConsoleGridView: Curses failed to initialize, the exception is: The native method "COLOR_PAIRS" does not exist

Checking the symbols of libncursesw.so.6 reveals the following issue: > nm -D /lib64/libncursesw.so.6 | grep COLOR 000000000000f3e0 T COLOR_PAIR 000000000000d740 T _nc_COLOR_PAIRS 000000000000d760 T _nc_COLORS

With ncurses5 on OpenSUSE it would work as on most other Linux distros: > nm -D /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 | grep COLOR 000000000000eeb0 T COLOR_PAIR 0000000000034034 B COLOR_PAIRS 0000000000034030 B COLORS

However OpenSUSE relies on ncurses6 and I cannot get pwsh running with libncursesw.so.5 and so Out-ConsoleGridView doesn’t work on this Linux distribution.

Already updated ncurses to the latest available package version: ncurses-utils-6.4.20230617-15.1.x86_64 ncurses-devel-6.4.20230617-15.1.x86_64 libncurses6-6.4.20230617-15.1.x86_64

A few potential fixes such as trying to load _nc_COLOR_PAIRS if available instead of COLOR_PAIRS or others are described here: https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui/issues/415

I hope you can help us here, as a change in this package is more likely than getting an update from the OpenSUSE distro.

Thanks and best regards, Alex

Expected behavior

Out-ConsoleGridview works

Actual behavior

PS > Get-Process | Out-ConsoleGridView 
Out-ConsoleGridView: Curses failed to initialize, the exception is: The native method "COLOR_PAIRS" does not exist

Error details

PS > Get-Error                                                                                         
 
Exception            :  
   Type      : System.Exception 
   TargetSite :  
       Name         : Init 
       DeclaringType : Terminal.Gui.CursesDriver, Terminal.Gui, Version=1.7.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null 
       MemberType   : Method 
       Module       : Terminal.Gui.dll 
   Message   : Curses failed to initialize, the exception is: The native method "COLOR_PAIRS" does not exist 
   Source    : Terminal.Gui 
   HResult   : -2146233088 
   StackTrace :  
  at Terminal.Gui.CursesDriver.Init(Action terminalResized) 
  at Terminal.Gui.Application.Init(Func`1 topLevelFactory, ConsoleDriver driver, IMainLoopDriver mainLoopDriver) 
  at Terminal.Gui.Application.Init(ConsoleDriver driver, IMainLoopDriver mainLoopDriver) 
  at OutGridView.Cmdlet.ConsoleGui.Start(ApplicationData applicationData) in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools\ConsoleGui.cs:line 31 
  at OutGridView.Cmdlet.OutConsoleGridViewCmdletCommand.EndProcessing() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools\OutConsoleGridviewCmdletCommand.cs:line 147 
  at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.Complete() 
CategoryInfo         : NotSpecified: (:) [Out-ConsoleGridView], Exception 
FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Exception,OutGridView.Cmdlet.OutConsoleGridViewCmdletCommand 
InvocationInfo       :  
   MyCommand       : Out-ConsoleGridView 
   ScriptLineNumber : 1 
   OffsetInLine    : 15 
   HistoryId       : 2 
   Line            : Get-Process | Out-ConsoleGridView 
   Statement       : Out-ConsoleGridView 
   PositionMessage : At line:1 char:15 
                      + Get-Process | Out-ConsoleGridView 
                      +              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
   InvocationName  : Out-ConsoleGridView 
   CommandOrigin   : Internal 
ScriptStackTrace     : at <ScriptBlock>, <No file>: line 1

Environment data

PS > $PSVersionTable                            
 
Name                          Value 
----                          ----- 
PSVersion                     7.4.0-preview.4 
PSEdition                     Core 
GitCommitId                   7.4.0-preview.4 
OS                            openSUSE Tumbleweed 
Platform                      Unix 
PSCompatibleVersions          {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…} 
PSRemotingProtocolVersion     2.3 
SerializationVersion          1.1.0.1 
WSManStackVersion             3.0

Version

0.7.2

Visuals

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