Your message dated Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:19:44 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: xterm: strange creeping background problem on redraw when using mutt and screen - closing has caused the Debian Bug report #418818, regarding xterm: strange creeping background problem on redraw when using mutt and screen to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: xterm Version: 225-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I'm not sure exactly where the bug lies here -- it could be in screen, mutt, ncurses, or xterm. I'm going with xterm for now because rxvt, while it also exhibits a bug, doesn't exhibit exactly the same bug. It appears that xterm sometimes forgets what color to paint certain character cells. How to reproduce: 1) Be running screen. 2) Have mutt running with a folder ("index") view in 2 different screen windows. 3) Go to the one of the mutt windows in screen. (You may already notice that the top-line menu bar's background color is not drawn all the way across the xterm window.) 4) Switch to the other mutt window in screen. (You should notice that the top-line menu bar's background color is not present all the way across the window. For me, it stops with the last character that has a foreground glyph.) 5) Press enter to tell mutt to view a message in the folder. (Again, the background color of the top line stops with the last real character drawn.) 6) Press 'i' to tell mutt to return to the folder view. (Notice how some correct background color has crept in from the right side, leaving a gap in the middle of the top line with the default terminal background color.) 7) Repeat steps 5) and 6), pressing no other keys, and watch how each time you return to the folder view, the gap with the wrong background color gets progressively smaller. 8) Eventually, the folder index is rendered correctly. The gap persists in message view as well, but doesn't get larger. Some of the gap is clobbered from the left because mutt writes more text to the menu bar in that view than in folder view, though. 9) CTRL-L at any time (with the affected screen window active) cleans all of this up. rxvt-unicode-ml seems to be broken slightly differently. Instead, as you repeat steps 5) and 6), it forgets the correct background color for more and more character cells, not fewer. I took a ton of screenshots to document this. Please find a compressed tar archive at the following URL: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/tmp/creeping_mutt.tar.gz It contains the following files: xterm01.png xterm02.png xterm03.png xterm04.png xterm05.png xterm06.png xterm07.png xterm08.png xterm09.png xterm10.png xterm11.png xterm12.png xterm13.png xterm14.png xterm15.png xterm16.png xterm17.png xterm18.png xterm19.png rxvt01.png rxvt02.png rxvt03.png -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii xutils 1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "unreproductible" for years without answer. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to re-open it or ask me to do it. Solveig
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