On Sunday 30 September 2018 08:17, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> put forth the proposition: > Does the behaviour persist if you don't use screen? I'm wondering if screen's > terminal management is > reseting your cursor change. > > Conversely, does the behaviour occur if you use screen but don't use mutt > (but _do_ use some other curses > programme like vim inside screen)? > > Just trying to isolate where the reset is coming from. And I don't have a > convenient linux framebuffer > console to test against (though I should set one up).
I just tried to boot with just a plain VGA console to see if there was any difference and it automatically created a framebuffer anyway. Maybe that's normal with recent kernels? [ +0.177830] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device [ +0.074936] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x56 [ +0.024963] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- Dave Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: (1) If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. (2) If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. .--. oo (____)// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'