Bug#62878: Screen display problems with terminals
Package: general
Version: N/A;
Severity: normal
There seems to be some general problem with the display of terminal (that is
vt100 style, not X windows and not command-line) oriented programs. I make this
sweeping statment on the basis of 2 programs:
dselect
mutt
For both, I have garbage characters floating around. In the case of dselect, areas
in the headers which should be blank (e.g., the left hand side of the major group
headings on the top of dselect--I don't mean the column headings, but the rows
which mark aggregations of packages) have text in them (among other problems).
In the case of mutt, I notice the problem particularly in threaded sorting; again
strange characters and text appear where they shouldn't.
Frankly, I have little idea what system to point the finger at. Here are some
facts which may be relevant:
Running GNOME terminals under GNOME.
I have changed the default font of the terminals (it is now -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1; I don't know what it was originally). My initial suspicion was that the programs couldn't handle this kind of font change.
I've noticed the problem for at least a couple of weeks, during which I've been
keeping up with the current potato.
I think I've seen the problem with other text based programs, but these are
the ones I'm sure of.
ii dpkg 1.6.12 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii mutt 1.0.1-9 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG,
Both depend on libncurses5
un libncurses-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses4 4.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling
pn libncurses4-db <none> (no description available)
pn libncurses4-de <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for terminal handling
pn libncurses5-db <none> (no description available)
pn libncurses5-de <none> (no description available)
un ncurses <none> (no description available)
ii ncurses-base 5.0-6 Descriptions of common terminal types
ii ncurses-bin 5.0-6 Terminal-related programs and man pages
un ncurses-dev <none> (no description available)
un ncurses-develo <none> (no description available)
pn ncurses-hexedi <none> (no description available)
un ncurses-runtim <none> (no description available)
ii ncurses-term 5.0-6 Additional terminal type definitions
un ncurses21-dev <none> (no description available)
pn ncurses3.0 <none> (no description available)
pn ncurses3.0-alt <none> (no description available)
pn ncurses3.4 <none> (no description available)
pn ami-gnome <none> (no description available)
pn giram-gnome <none> (no description available)
pn giram-gnome-me <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-admin 1.0.3-2 Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp and logview)
ii gnome-apt 0.3.7 Gnome front-end to apt
ii gnome-audio 1.0.0-3 Audio files for Gnome
ii gnome-bin 1.0.56-3 Miscellaneous binaries used by Gnome
ii gnome-card-gam 1.0.51-6 Gnome card games - Solitaire games (FreeCell
pn gnome-chess <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-control- 1.0.51-4 The Gnome Control Center
ii gnome-core 1.0.55-1 Common files for Gnome core apps
un gnome-desktop <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-dev-doc 1.0.56-3 Gnome developers documentation
ii gnome-faq 1.0.56-3 Frequently Asked Questions about GNOME
ii gnome-games 1.0.51-6 Empty package that requires the installation
ii gnome-games-lo 1.0.51-6 The locale databases for the gnome-games pac
ii gnome-gataxx 1.0.51-6 This is a GNOME port of the old game ataxx.
ii gnome-glines 1.0.51-6 This is a version of the color lines program
ii gnome-gnibbles 1.0.51-6 A cute little game that has no description
un gnome-gnobots <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-gnobots2 1.0.51-6 Second Gnome version of robots game for BSD
ii gnome-gnometri 1.0.51-6 A tetris clone.
ii gnome-gnomine 1.0.51-6 Classic find the mines in the minefield game
un gnome-gnothell <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-gnotrave 1.0.51-6 A game based on Tetravex.
ii gnome-gtali 1.0.51-6 Gnome version of Yahtzee Dice Game
ii gnome-gturing 1.0.51-6 Turing game
ii gnome-guile 1.0.1.cvs.1999 Guile-Gtk scheme interpreter (part of Gnome)
ii gnome-gv 0.82-2 GNOME PostScript/PDF viewer
un gnome-gyahtzee <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-help 1.0.55-1 GNOME help browser
ii gnome-help-dat 1.0.55-1 GNOME help browser data
ii gnome-iagno 1.0.51-6 Gnome version of Othello (Reversi) board gam
ii gnome-libs-dat 1.0.56-3 Data for Gnome libraries
ii gnome-mahjongg 1.0.51-6 Classic Chinese Tile Game (from Gnome)
ii gnome-media 1.0.51-2 Gnome Media Utilities (gmix, gtcd)
un gnome-metatris <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-napster <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-network 1.0.2-5 The gnome network utilities.
ii gnome-panel 1.0.55-1 Launch and/or dock Gnome applications
ii gnome-panel-da 1.0.55-1 Data files for GNOME panel
ii gnome-session 1.0.55-1 The Gnome Session Manager
ii gnome-stones 1.0.51-6 Stones games
ii gnome-terminal 1.0.55-1 The Gnome terminal emulator application
ii gnome-think 0.1.3-3 Hierarchical organizer and outliner
ii gnome-users-gu 1.0.6-1 GNOME User's Guide
pn gnome-users-gu <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-utils 1.0.50-4 Gnome Utilities (gtt, ghex, and more)
ii gnome-xbill 1.0.51-6 Fight the infection.
ii gnomehack 1.0.5-1 A port of NetHack for GNOME
ii gnomeicu 0.90b-1 Small, fast and functional clone of Mirabili
un gtksamba-gnome <none> (no description available)
pn icewm-gnome <none> (no description available)
un libglade-gnome <none> (no description available)
ii libglade-gnome 0.11-2 Library to load .glade files at runtime (Gno
pn libglade-gnome <none> (no description available)
ii libgnome-dev 1.0.56-3 The Gnome libraries -- development package
pn libgnome-gnorb <none> (no description available)
pn libgnome-perl <none> (no description available)
un libgnome0 <none> (no description available)
un libgnome31 <none> (no description available)
ii libgnome32 1.0.56-3 The Gnome libraries
pn libgnomemm <none> (no description available)
pn libgnomemm-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libgnomesuppor 1.0.56-3 The Gnome libraries (Support libraries)
ii libgnomeui32 1.0.56-3 The Gnome libraries (User Interface)
pn libobgnome-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libobgnome0 1.0.40-2 Objective-C - Gnome bindings
pn penguineyes-gn <none> (no description available)
ii python-gnome 1.0.50-5 PyGNOME -- Python bindings for GNOME.
ii sawmill-gnome 0.20.1-2.1 GNOME components for Sawmill
iU ssh-askpass-gn 1.2.3-2 under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh-
ii task-gnome-app 1.0.3 GNOME applications and utilities
ii task-gnome-des 1.0.7 GNOME basic desktop
ii task-gnome-gam 1.0.5 GNOME games
ii task-gnome-net 1.0.4 GNOME network applications
pn wmaker-gnome <none> (no description available)
ii xchat-gnome 1.4.2-1 IRC client for GNOME similar to AmIRC
pn xkbsel-gnome <none> (no description available)
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wheat 2.2.14 #1 Sun Apr 16 18:51:46 EST 2000 i586
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