Description of problem: The interactive shell spawned by gnome-terminal inherits TERM=xterm. This appears to be hardcoded in the gnome-terminal binary. It appears that the xterm terminfo entry in FC6 (and possibly earlier) is not an accurate description of gnome-terminal's terminal emulation. The "gnome" terminfo entry appears to be a better fit for gnome-terminal. gnome-terminal should set TERM=gnome before spawning the login shell. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.16.0-fc6 How reproducible: I can generally reproduce display corruption using cone (in Extras); but it looks like you need to have a large folder hierarchy displayed. By scrolling up/down through the folder listing I can usually cause some minor visible corruption. The corruption is gone if I set TERM=gnome. By process of elimination, by comparing xterm and gnome terminfo entries, I identified at least one code in xterm's terminfo entry that does not match gnome-terminal's capabilities. The terminfo entry for xterm contains this code: cbt=\E[Z If I remove the cbt code from the terminfo entry for xterm, and leave TERM=xterm, the display corruption also disappears. But there are also many other differences between the two terminfo entries. Other disrepancies are also likely. The current version of the ncurses package, used by cone and other terminfo-based apps, aggressively tries to optimize its terminal output; it uses nearly all terminfo entries where available, and is rather sensitive to disrepancies between terminfo entries and the actual terminal device implementation.
Created attachment 149811 [details] Email message which triggers screen corruption in mutt.
Just another data point: I am using Scientific Linux 4, and I have screen refresh troubles when running mutt in a gnome-terminal, which go away if I set TERM=gnome. The attachment is an email message which consistently triggers the corruption.
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