Bug#364993: gnome-terminal: ncurses apps have wrong display in
newly openeded, non-resized tab
Tim Van Holder
tim.vanholder at anubex.com
Thu Apr 27 07:08:29 UTC 2006
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: important
When I open a new gnome-terminal and run an ncurses app (say, mutt), it renders just fine.
However, when I then open a fresh tab, and run an ncurses app in that, it displays garbage.
What kind of garbage seems to depend on the app: mutt and emacs -nw render their screen
partially offscreen (the bottom half is visible on the top half of the gnome-terminal window;
the bottom half of the window stays blank); nano goes completely wild.
It seems to be at least partially related to the setting of $TERM to 'xterm'. If I set it
to some other value (say, 'linux') and rerun mutt, it looks fine; setting it back to 'xterm'
causes the bad display again.
The other thing that works is to open a new tab, then resize the gnome-terminal-window; after
that, the screens are rendered fine (regardless of $TERM).
All in all, a weird problem - I'm reporting it against gnome-terminal because it does not
occur in the first window, only in new tabs, but it could just as well be a ncurses problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.12.3-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.14.0-1 Data files for the GNOME terminal
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.0-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.0-2 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.16-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libvte4 1:0.12.0-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-10.1 A free electronic cataloging syste
Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii yelp 2.12.2-4 Help browser for GNOME 2
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