Bug 20690

Summary: Spurious cursor visibility change in gnome-terminal.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam>
Component: gnome-libsAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Dale Lovelace <dale>
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Demonstration shell script - run in a gnome-terminal window. none

Description Sam Varshavchik 2000-11-12 00:15:00 UTC 
The attached shell script turns off cursor visibility (terminfo's "civis")
, sequence ESC [?25l

However, the subsequent escape sequences printed by the example script will
result in the cursor reappearing after the word "seen:".  The shell script
does not explicitly change cursor visibility, though.

This behavior is exhibited only in gnome-terminal, and it screws up a lot
of ncurses applications.

Neither xterm, nor rxvt, exhibit this behavior (the cursor remains in
invisible state throughout the entire demonstration).
Comment 1 Sam Varshavchik 2000-11-12 00:16:19 UTC 
Created attachment 5259 [details]
Demonstration shell script - run in a gnome-terminal window.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2000-11-13 02:19:54 UTC 
Forwarding bug upstream
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-07-12 20:15:21 UTC 
Sent upstream as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57458

Closing on Red Hat level.