Your message dated Wed, 20 May 2026 19:04:53 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #702827,
regarding screen: Cursor not repositioned properly after launching altscreen
application and resizing the terminal
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: screen
Version: 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7
Severity: normal
Hello,
When launching vim then resizing my terminal, my cursor is not properly
repositioned after a resize.
Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
1. Launch a terminal
2. Launch an application that uses altscreen like vim
3. Resize the terminal
4. Close the application. The cursor should now be in the wrong location.
Below is an example of what my terminal looks like when repeating these steps
on my computer:
> tmp% date; tput cols; tput lines
> Mon Mar 11 17:03:52 CDT 2013
> 159
> 58
> tmp%
>
>
>
>
> tmp% date; tput cols; tput lines
> Mon Mar 11 17:03:29 CDT 2013
> 68
> 25
> tmp% vi test
Note that the lines on top were printed below the lines on the bottom where you
would expect it to be the other way around. Perhaps this is a terminfo problem.
Eric
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.9
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
screen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages screen suggests:
pn iselect | screenie | byobu <none>
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 4.9.0-4
Hi,
This bug is over 10 years old with no activity or followup.
Upstream had a bunch of commits around the time this bug was raised
relating to alt-screen.
I presume this bug has been fixed since then. I could not reproduce in
any modern version of screen.
Marking as fixed in 4.9.0-4 because that's the version I tested against,
but it was probably fixed many versions earlier.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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