Bug#469251: mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace
Hi, I cannot find the bug in gnome-terminal. Is it already duplicated for them? thx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#469251: mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace
Package: mc Version: 1:4.6.2~pre1-5 Severity: normal Start 'mcedit borked_mcedit.txt' (attached) in 'gnome-terminal'. The cursor is a white square over the letter 'a'. Press down arrow twice, the cursor vanishes. Keep pressing down arrow and the cursor reappears over the 'f'. In a console, (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc.), the result is different. The cursor starts as a white underline, and changes to a light blue underline when over leading whitespace. The light blue cursor against the dark blue background is not invisible, but is distinctly less visible. More testing, summarized in a (monospace font) table: cursor is... normal color changing invisible gnome-terminal X console X konsole X xterm X uxterm X xfterm4 X rxvtX Eterm X (Maybe the invisible cursor is some odd 'gnome-terminal' setting on my system, or a bug. But the color changing occurs in several terminals.) Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mc depends on: ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpmg1 1.20.3~pre3-2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libslang2 2.1.3-2 The S-Lang programming library - r mc recommends no packages. -- no debconf information a b c d e f
Bug#469251: mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:20:09AM +0100, A. Costa wrote: Package: mc Version: 1:4.6.2~pre1-5 Severity: normal Start 'mcedit borked_mcedit.txt' (attached) in 'gnome-terminal'. The cursor is a white square over the letter 'a'. Press down arrow twice, the cursor vanishes. Keep pressing down arrow and the cursor reappears over the 'f'. sounds like yet another gnome-terminal bug (Maybe the invisible cursor is some odd 'gnome-terminal' setting on my system, or a bug. But the color changing occurs in several terminals.) xterm changes color to help keep the cursor visible... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpP5M0gUoV6N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#469251: [Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#469251: mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace
Am Dienstag, 4. März 2008 12:44:39 schrieb Thomas Dickey: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:20:09AM +0100, A. Costa wrote: Package: mc Version: 1:4.6.2~pre1-5 Severity: normal Start 'mcedit borked_mcedit.txt' (attached) in 'gnome-terminal'. The cursor is a white square over the letter 'a'. Press down arrow twice, the cursor vanishes. Keep pressing down arrow and the cursor reappears over the 'f'. sounds like yet another gnome-terminal bug Mh.. yes. (Maybe the invisible cursor is some odd 'gnome-terminal' setting on my system, or a bug. But the color changing occurs in several terminals.) xterm changes color to help keep the cursor visible... So what would you suggest? Reassign to gnome-terminal? Greetings Winnie -- .''`. Patrick Winnertz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : GNU/Linux Debian Developer `. `'` http://www.der-winnie.de http://people.skolelinux.org/~winnie `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#469251: [Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#469251: mcedit: terminal dependent vanishing or chameleon cursor over leading whitespace
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:38:15 -0500 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start 'mcedit borked_mcedit.txt' (attached) in 'gnome-terminal'. The cursor is a white square over the letter 'a'. Press down arrow twice, the cursor vanishes. Keep pressing down arrow and the cursor reappears over the 'f'. ... xterm changes color to help keep the cursor visible... So what would you suggest? Reassign to gnome-terminal? yes The 'xterm' color changing behavior is annoying -- I don't expect the cursor to change color (or shape) unless to indicate a mode change, (e.g. insert/overwrite). And light blue over blue is less visible than white or black on blue; the cursor blends in with the background like a chameleon. See attached before/after '.png' snapshots. Rather than reassigning, I'd suggest 'cloning' the bug to 'gnome-terminal'. The cloned bugs might be retitled: mcedit: terminal dependent chameleon cursor over leading whitespace gnome-terminal: vanishing cursor over leading whitespace in 'mcedit' HTH... attachment: Screenshot_white_cursor.pngattachment: Screenshot_blue_cursor.png
