Bug 1143

Summary:	/usr/bin/reset doesn't reset enough things
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Marc MERLIN <marc_soft>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Description Marc MERLIN 1999-02-13 08:14:07 UTC

Forwarding a really old bug report to bugzilla

This includes the background color in an xterm or rxvt,
and xterm mouse reporting.

How to reproduce?
start midnight commander (mc), killall -9 mc.
This should leave you with a prompt on a colored background.
Also, if you try to cut and paste with the mouse, you'll
notice it won't work unless you also press shift.

I have the following wrapper around reset:
#!/bin/sh

# Xterm codes can be found here:
# http://babayaga.math.fu-berlin.de/~rxvt/refer/refer.html
if [    a"$TERM" = axterm -o a"$TERM" = axterm-color -o \
        a"$TERM" = akterm -o a"$TERM" = arxvt ]; then
        # Disable X11 XTerm mouse reporting
        # Replace ESC with ^V^[
        echo 'ESC[?1000l'

        # Reset foreground and background colors
	# Replace ESC with ^V^[
        echo 'ESC[0m'
fi

# Reset the terminal
/usr/bin/reset

# Reset terminal size
if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/resize ]; then
        eval `resize`
fi

------- Email Received From  Marc Merlin <marc> 02/13/99 03:16 -------

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-04-06 19:05:59 UTC

I have verified that when mc is killed the xterm display is not
restored properly when the reset command is used.

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-04-09 22:00:59 UTC

Judging from the comments:
/* What about rf, rs3, as per terminfo man page? */
/* also might be nice to send rmacs, rmul, rmm */
in the tset.c source file (reset is a link to tset), it
looks like the authors of ncurses themselves can't decide
what the right thing is to do.

I hesitate to copy bug-ncurses in the bugzilla Cc
line, but if you would like this fixed long term for everyone
I'd suggest contacting bug-ncurses and asking if they
have reasons for not doing all the resetting they can; if they
change it, we'll naturally pick it up in time.  That's better
than us making the change unilaterally.  Also, they clearly made
a decision not to do all the resetting; they may have reasons
not to reset everything by default that we haven't thought of.

Comment 3 Marc MERLIN 1999-04-14 06:36:59 UTC

I'll try that.
Would you consider in the meantime having a shell script wrapper,
and possibly call it resetall or something, if you want to make sure
that you don't brake the existing behavior of reset?

Comment 4 Cristian Gafton 1999-08-28 00:00:59 UTC

Fixed in ncurses-4.2-21 and later

Comment 5 Paul J Murphy 2000-01-03 08:43:59 UTC

$RPM_BUILD_ROOT is missing from the install of /usr/bin/resetall in ncurses.spec
supplied with ncurses-4.2-25.src.rpm, so it doesn't get installed.

The following patch fixes it:

--- ncurses.spec.dist   Thu Sep 23 18:50:17 1999
+++ ncurses.spec.resetall       Mon Jan  3 08:26:02 2000
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 make clean -C test

 # the resetall script
-install -m 755 %{SOURCE4} /usr/bin/resetall
+install -m 755 %{SOURCE4} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/resetall

 %post -p /sbin/ldconfig