Bug#382191: gnome-terminal: freezes when opening vim

[Vincent Ho]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:37:29PM +0200, Benoit Dejean wrote:

> since i've upgraded i can no longer use vim because opening it freezes
> gnome-terminal (i then i have to KILL ALL my terminals).  I can 100%
> reproduce it with modern vim (but not with AIX 4.3 vi or OpenBSD 3.9
> vi). Other programs runs without problem.

Hi Benoit,

Just to check.. have you tried running other editors, or running vim in
another terminal-emulator? I recommend trying xterm (since it's very
different to g-t) and xfce4-terminal (since it also uses vte, the same
terminal emulation widget).

Additionally, you haven't mentioned what version of him you're using.
When the freeze happens, could you run an strace on the gnome-terminal
process to have a look at what it's doing?

> I got this warning before freeze :
> 
> ** (gnome-terminal:18288): WARNING **: Aucune manipulation d\351finie
> pour la s\351quence de contr\364le
> \253\240device-control-string\240\273.
> 
> No handler for control sequence `device-control-string' defined.

This is a normal (and AFAIK harmless) warning that occurs when running
vim in gnome-terminal, and has been present for a long time.  It happens
because gnome-terminal sets TERM=xterm but doesn't actually support all
the xterm control sequences. If it bothers you, then setting TERM=gnome
in your shell environment before running vim should make it go away.


   Vince

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