Bug 625529

Summary: xterm escape codes in 'screen' session cause garbled display
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component: setupAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: mlichvar, ovasik, pknirsch
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Description Matthew Miller 2010-08-19 17:59:59 UTC 
Some time starting recently in rawhide (could be mid-July update to ncurses), the "screen" command started behaving differently/badly. Specifically, the $PROMPT_COMMAND which contains sequences to change the xterm title doesn't work and instead causes garbled output on the display.

This problem happens regardless of where the screen session is running: same thing in an xterm, gnome-terminal, vt, or ssh'd in.

The screen program itself hasn't changed in over a year, which is why I'm wildly casting blame here.
Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2010-08-20 07:02:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 624900 ***