when I resize the putty window the arm displays "go all soft"
Very odd. Arm checks its screen dimensions at each refresh and for me dynamic resizing works perfectly. My guess it that this is a putty issue. Does top show similar terminal glitches when you resize?
# ./install /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) installed to /usr/share/arm
ihmo, this install script is not suitable for servers
Agreed, the install script shouldn't require pygtk. Kamran was working on an arm gtk interface for GSoC so I added its requirements to the prereq.py, but it's still a prototype and shouldn't require gtk of normal curses users. The fix in the install script is to simply change... python src/prereq.py --both
to... python src/prereq.py
I'll go ahead and issue a hotfix for this. Cheers! -Damian