Description of Problem: After exiting aumix , the cursor is blue. The typed characters are white and after pressing "return" the cursor color goes to "white" , as it was before aumix. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): aumix-2.7-12 How Reproducible: allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. run aumix on console ( VT1 ) 2. exit aumix 3. Actual Results: The color of the cursor is blue. After pressing return , it goes to white. Expected Results: Cursor is white. Additional Information:
Confirming. $ rpm -q aumix aumix-2.7-12 Severity should be trivial, and the priority should be low.
Hmm. This is the same version of aumix we've shipped for years. Nothing has changed. Perhaps it is a bash bug.
yes, the bug is also very old. I remember seeing it with earlier RHL releases. It is not related to bash, I chsh'ed to /bin/tcsh and it behaves the same.
Hmm. I can't reproduce it on a 7.1 box here, or 8.0. I believe you that the bug is present, I just wonder what is different about my setup. Perhaps it is my custom bash prompt. I just tried using "csh" also. Now I'll try invoking as tcsh... No go. This is all inside KDE's konsole. Perhaps it is specific to a particular terminal emulator, or perhaps the Linux console? AHA! I just went to the console in bash, and ran aumix. When I quit the program, I get my normal prompt, followed by a blue cursor. Pressing enter, goes up a line and restores the cursor to its proper color, as does typing something and pressing backspace. I have not looked at the aumix source code yet, however I can pretty much guess what is happening is that the program is doctoring with the Linux console cursor codes and not restoring them properly. Either that or it is dirtying the entire background, and then not restoring properly. Ultimately, the program should really save the entire screen contents, as do pine/mc/or any other sane full screen ncurses based application. (Wait.. did I just say pine and mc are sane? <cringe>) So in the end, I acknowledge this 'glitch'. It it however very trivial in the grand scheme of things, and something I would ordinarily recommend filing with the upstream maintainer, except for the fact that aumix has not been updated in over 2 years, and seems unmaintained. So I'll leave it here and maybe poke at it when I'm bored or something. In the mean time, if anyone else is up to the task, feel free to submit a patch.
Created attachment 86345 [details] this patch corrects the blue cursor (simply prints a carriage return to refresh terminal's new BG/FG color setting)
Fixed in rawhide 2.8-3