Description of problem: I use Xfce Terminal, but I type mc it print the message: Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor. This problem since update ~ 1st october, 2010. If I use gnome-terminal, mc work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Terminal-0.4.5-2.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: always Expected results: Terminal is good.
Other applications in terminal: less /etc/system-release WARNING: terminal is not fully functional /etc/system-release (press RETURN)
I've had another report of this too. ;( TERM is not getting set right. Can you do an 'env' command and add the output here? Also, if you do: export TERM=xterm does everything start working?
i had this also TERM was set to dumb for me
echo "$TERM" dumb export TERM=xterm command temporarily solved my problem. Thank you! :)
Looks like a vte commit broke all vte using terminals except for gnome-terminal. ;) See upstream gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630861
This was discussed at the 2010-10-01 blocker / nth review meeting. Since GNOME and KDE terminals are not affected we decided this was not a blocker, but definitely a nice-to-have and we would very much want it to be fixed for the release.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/patch/?id=c5d31b87d7a377f5e6fe93fc1efb061f5c7e9db7 is a possible fix from upstream (already commited). Can folks try this scratch build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2525453 diff --git a/vte.spec b/vte.spec index 169d285..2269d29 100644 --- a/vte.spec +++ b/vte.spec @@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ Name: vte Version: 0.26.0 -Release: 1%{?dist} +Release: 3%{?dist} Summary: A terminal emulator License: LGPLv2+ Group: User Interface/X #VCS: git:git://git.gnome.org/vte Source: http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.26/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 +Patch1: vte-0.26.0-term-fix.patch BuildRequires: gtk2-devel >= %{gtk2_version} BuildRequires: pango-devel >= %{pango_version} @@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ vte. %prep %setup -q +%patch1 -p1 %build PYTHON=%{_bindir}/python`%{__python} -c "import sys ; print sys.version[:3]"` @@ -100,6 +102,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/python*/site-packages/gtk-2.0/*.a %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/vte-0.0 %changelog +* Sat Oct 09 2010 Kevin Fenzi <kevin> - 0.26.0-2 +- Add patch for term issue. + * Wed Sep 29 2010 Matthias Clasen <mclasen> 0.26.0-1 - Update to 0.26
I was also experiencing this problem. Kevin's fix worked for me - everything works properly in Terminal now. Also fixes lilyterm and tilda. Thanks Kevin! Nathan
vte-0.26.0-3.fc14.x86_64 solved this bug, it's work for me! Thanks! :)
yeha, vim works again with the vte version from kevin... Thanks Kevin!
Yes, also worked for me! Thanks very much as f14 is much better now ;)
Don't forget to add an upstream bug link as a comment above the patch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#All_patches_should_have_an_upstream_bug_link_or_comment
Released upstream vte 0.26.1 that fixes this.
*** Bug 638423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 642004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
vte-0.26.1-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vte-0.26.1-1.fc14
If everyone could please test the above update and up karma it so we could get it in for f14, that would be great. ;)
(In reply to comment #17) > If everyone could please test the above update and up karma it so we could get > it in for f14, that would be great. ;) Thanks for pulling in the new upstream update so quickly! Does work great for me with sugar-terminal - /me has given his karma.
I tested it - vte-0.26.1-1.fc14 - with Xfce Terminal, work correctly. :)
vte-0.26.1-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update vte'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vte-0.26.1-1.fc14
vte-0.26.1-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.