From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: when using the command: less 'filename' or man <command-name> nothing is displayed on the screen. if the down arrow is hit, nothing shows up until the up arrow is hit. the same happens with pagedown; nothing will happen until pageup is hit. for example, if you want to scroll down a page, you'd have to: pagedown pagedown pageup after that, you'll finally see the expected text. i tried these commands using xterm and they work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.0.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. less a file or man a command 2. view the results Actual Results: nothing is displayed and scrolling acts strange Expected Results: buffer scrolling should work like in old versions of gnome-terminal or other terminal emulators like xterm. Additional info:
This should be fixed with the final vte
*** Bug 74514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Part of what is described here is normal less behavior in any terminal. The rest has since been fixed a long time ago.