Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 151845
/usr/bin/reset does not work properly with X terminal programs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:02 EST
Description of problem: /usr/bin/reset does not work properly with xterm. It moves the cursor to the home position, but does not reset the terminal. It likewise doesn't work with konsole and gnome-terminal. It DOES work properly on a virtual console. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open xterm 2. run some command (so there's stuff in the window) 3. run reset Actual results: The screen is not cleared and the terminal is not reset. If programs terminate improperly while the terminal is in an alternate state, reset does not restore default terminal settings. Expected results: screen is cleared and terminal is reset, restoring the terminal to its default state. Additional info: It worked fine in RH9 and all previous versions -- I didn't use FC1 so I can't speak to that. I'm guessing the problem occurred because of the switch from XFree86 to xorg...
reset is part of ncurses. xterm hasn't changed with respect to that. The first thing I would check would be the terminal description.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
(See comment #2 above...) But also, this worked fine for me in FC2.
We could not reproduce your issue in FEDORA CORE 4. We have tried your example using xterm, linux-console, gnome-terminal Launch at command prompt: tput smso #Set a terminal in 'reverse mode' (reverse #background/foreground color). tput smacs #Set a terminal in 'alternate character set' mode. blablabla #Write any text, then press the Enter-key. reset #After the reset command, the screen is clear and the #terminal is reset. NOTE: only gnome-terminal does not clear the terminal window and does not move the current cursor to position (0,0). This can be a small bug in gnome-termnal (the 'clear' command at the command prompt helps in this case). The library ncurses defines the terminal-initial-state as 'clear window' + 'current cursor at (0,0)' but the 'reset' command does not say anything about 'clear window'/'cursor at 0,0'. We can see this 'small bug' as gnome-terminal property. The reset-program uses ncurses library to obtain a Esc-sequence to reset a terminal. The library ncurses use /usr/share/terminfo/*/* database to retreive the Esc-sequence. The 'gnomme-terminal' uses the same terminfo-databese-record as 'xterm' (TERM=xterm). Therefore, this is not a bug in terminfo/termcap database. If you see this gnome-terminal behaviour as a bug, open a new issue as a bug in gnome-terminal. Petr Raszyk