From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13 i686) Description of problem: When I resize a window, the process listening to the window's stdin gets garbage characters, causing random havoc. I'm running Gnome/sawfish. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Bring up a Terminal window. 2. rsh/rlogin to a remote Linux system to get a shell. 3.Grab a corner of the window with the mouse and drag it around for a few seconds. Repeat until bug shows up. Actual Results: Random junk (probably random binary characters) may appear on the stdin of the remote shell. Expected Results: Resizing the window should never generate stdin input. Additional info: I don't know if the 'rsh' is necessary, but so far I have only seen the problem under those conditions.
I can't get this to happen; what are the rsh and bash versions on both local and remote machine, maybe?
Local bash version: GNU bash, version 2.05.8(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) I don't know how to get the rsh version, but I haven't altered it since upgrading to RH7.2 and installing some updates from RedHat: [mth@zap mth]$ which rsh /usr/kerberos/bin/rsh [mth@zap mth]$ ls -l /usr/kerberos/bin/rsh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23756 Aug 3 2001 /usr/kerberos/bin/rsh Problem is independent of remote system shell and rsh because it happens on a variety of different platforms/OS'es ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Problem is related to how windows are animated when resized. I had been using "opaque". When I changed to "box", problem went away. I suspect that the "opaque" case is generating events that are somehow not being handled properly, but instead are interpreted as kbd input.
Closing this as fixed since the GNOME version is ancient and the terminal was rewritten in the meantime. Please file upstream if it's still a problem.