Pull in the 5 divergent commits from Alars fork

[ilu33]

I'm using Alar's fork https://github.com/alarofrunetotem/lcurse atm because this version stopped working for me about a year ago on Debian 9.
@ephraim could you have a look at the 5 commits Alar is ahead of you? It would be good to have everything in one spot again. I don't know why he didn't create pull requests.

[ephraim]

Thanks for the info. Will give it a look.