Re: Sarge xterm scrolling bug, consumes 100% of the CPU!
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:59:59AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this error, but the `xterm' in Debian Sarge has a
> serious error.
What error? Your message isn't titled "Re:", so I don't know that its
a response to someone ..
> I am using several xterms to tail -f some log files, after a while,
> there must be some sort of `crap' character that gets printed onto
> the screen and then the xterm scrolls rapidly consuming 100% of the
> CPU!
> I have previously _always_ compiled xterm from source and never had
> this issue, I guess I can try to do that again but my question is in
> Debian, are there some type of special patches applied for xterm?
Undoubtedly yes. Get the source (40MB compressed; it all of X11) and
check ./debian/patches/. You can also just view the .diff online;
but, its the whole X11 diff..
Justin
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