Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 243066
Gnome-terminal doesn't update screen, when running irssi under screen
Last modified: 2008-06-16 21:28:27 EDT
Description of problem: When running programs like Irssi and SILC client in screen (screen the program), in gnome-terminal the gnome-terminal does not update the screen correctly when for example typing text to a IRC/SILC channel. The text remains in the input line even though it should be cleared. The problem did NOT exist in FC6 gnome-terminal. CTRL+L fixes the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.18.0-1.fc7 How reproducible: Start gnome-terminal, start screen, start irssi, connect to IRC server, join some channel, type text to channel and see how the text still remains in the input line even though it was supposed to be cleared after Enter. If it makes any different the gnome-terminal size was 80x60. The problem does not exist when running irssi without screen. See enclosed image as an example of what happens.
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Also, the screen was running at a remote machine and it was connected to with ssh. And the screen had TERM=screen. If any of these make any difference.
I tried to reproduce this, but it works fine for me. maybe the screen and/or the ncurses and/or the irssi on the other machine are to blame? Can you reproduce this locally? Can you reproduce this when running screen locally and then sshing from screen to the other machine and starting irssi there?
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