less displays some errors to stdout during scroll up, triggered by hitting the "page up" key. seems to happen with all LANG settings. using: gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-1 less-378-11.1 For repeatable test, run `man bash` then hit the 'end' key to scroll to the end of input. Hit the 'page up' key to scroll back a page. Output seems to repeatedly display the top line of the display, writing a new line at a time (containing the same string) without overwriting any lines at the top of the screen with new output. Reading a large file (more than displayed on a single screen) with less causes identical symptoms. I don't see this error at a linux text console outside of X, or in konsole.
I don't see this with less-378-11.1 gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1-1 man-1.5k-12 LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8" That said, it might be related to bug 91691.
I get this problem on Fedora Core 2. $ rpm -q gnome-terminal less man gnome-terminal-2.6.0-2 less-382-3 man-1.5m2-6 $ echo $LANG en_GB.UTF-8
Hi, What version of VTE do you have? Are you running Fedora Core 2, or Fedora Core 3 test 2? Thanks.
I also see this in RHEL 3, update 3. gnome-terminal-2.2.2-1 vte-0.11.10-3 less-378-11 LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" normally, I use konsole in RHEL. gnome-terminal launched from command line under konsole. in the new gnome-terminal session, I ran `man bash`, and see a long lag on writes when pgup'ing... mirrors symptoms in original report.
I just found a workaround for this bug (which still exists in FC3). Try adding the "-h0" option to less. To make it permanent, I added an alias less='less -h0' in /etc/profile.d/less.sh and also added '-h0' to the PAGER variable in /etc/man.config, to fix the man command as well.
This is already fixed in FC5.