Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 18326
rxvt (shift + page (up|down) doesn't work right
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:28:58 EDT
Hello! Just noticed that when I'm in X and using rxvt it hangs if I backscroll "too much". It is quite random where it hangs but it's rather annoying. After that I have to press enter once and suddenly (shift + page (up|down)) works again. I'm too lazy to use mouse for backscrolling. ;) I'm quite sure that the problem is with rxvt because xterm and "normal" console are working ok. with best regards, Pasi Sjvholm
today 05 Oct.. I tested the newest rxvt-development version and it didn't have the same bug.
I'd like to confirm this. First I thought that -- in comparison with RH 6.2 -- it would only be the case when I have ``rxvt*scrollTtyOutput: false'' enabled because disabling that seemed to work for some time. However, I then suddenly discovered more annoying shift+page up/down lockups. The rxvt shipped with RH 7.0 is bad.
Well, meanwhile I'm running KDE 2.0.1 from Rawhide (besides the usual rh70 updates), and the problem is gone. :-O
i'm using rxvt-2.7.5-15 on a plain, pure, just installed version of rh7.1. when ever you hit shift-key+ to flip fonts, rxvt seg faults. i think it is because some of the default fonts are not either installed correct or properly set in some xdefaults for or something. my personal .Xdefaults has no Xterm or Rxvt properties. Here is the trace of the core file if it helps at all (not many valid symbols, sorry): #0 0x40049957 in XFindOnExtensionList () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #1 0x40043c6b in _XF86BigfontFreeFontMetrics () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #2 0x40042fcb in XFreeFont () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #3 0x080514c3 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #4 0x0804ba50 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #5 0x0804c611 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #6 0x0804c303 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #7 0x0804effc in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #8 0x0804b873 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #9 0x40132177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804b840 <strcpy+272>, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbffffbfc, init=0x804a9c8 <_init>, fini=0x806286c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffbec) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 and the version compile line: Usage v2.7.5 : (XPM,utmp,menubar,frills,XIM,multichar languages,scrollbars=rxvt+NeXT+xterm,Greek,graphics,XGetDefaults)
That would be a completely different bug (which I can't reproduce btw) and a different release of Red Hat Linux. Hence I suggest you submit a separate bug report. (What do you mean with "shift-key+"?) Whoever has opened the original bug report, the problem is not present in Red Hat Linux 7.1. Else, I stick to my comment from 2000-12-23 11:28:31.