gnome-terminal 2.18 display problem

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:35:37 -0500, Bob Finch <bob at nas.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> writes:
>
>     >> From: Bob Finch <bob at nas.com>
>     >> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:06:37 -0700
>     >> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>     >>
>     >> Since upgrading to 2.18, gnome-terminal has a display problem that
>     >> causes problems with vi and other screen oriented applications.
>     >>
>     >> To reproduce, vi a file with more lines than the gnome-terminal
>     >> window and delete the first line.  The screen appears unchanged  
> except
>     >> the next line of the file is displayed on the last line (which  
> would
>     >> normally be blank).  Refreshing with ^L fixes the display.
>     >>
>     >> Anyone else have this problem?  Before filing a bug with gnome, I
>     >> thought I'd see if its my build.
>     >>
>     >> TERM is set to xterm and I'm using the standard FreeBSD termcap  
> file.
>     >> I upgraded via "portupgrade -a" from gnome 2.16.0.  I've been  
> testing
>     >> with a 24 line gnome-terminal window, but it appears to fail with
>     >> other window sizes.
>     >>
>     >> After deleting the line, vi sends:
>     >>
>     >> ESC[H        (move to top)
>     >> ESC[23B      (move to last line)
>     >> ^J           (scroll up since we're on the last line)
>     >> ESC[A        (move up one line)
>     >> display next line of file
>     >>
>     >> In gnome-terminal 2.18, the ESC[A appears to roll the scroll  
> region
>     >> down one line leaving the cursor where it was instead of moving  
> the
>     >> cursor up one line.
>
>     Kevin> I am seeing the same issue. This is the second problem I
>     Kevin> have had with gnome-terminal in 2.18. (See prior messages
>     Kevin> today.) I have no idea whether they are related.
>
> Thanks.  At least the problem isn't with my build.
>
> Looks like the problem is with the vte widget, I see the same problem
> running vte.  I'm going to file a gnome bug.

Yeah, you should file a bug report over at gnome bugzilla. When you run  
gnome-terminal, does it reports about that TERM is set to xterm?

Cheers,
Mezz

> -- Bob


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