Bug#263877: Various display artifacts in uxterm
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
This would have been Severity: minor, except that today I ran into a case
where it actually lost information (for all practical purposes) which should
have been displayed. I originally noticed that threaded mode in mutt was
not handled correctly:
1. Open an mbox in mutt with some threads in it: mutt -f <mbox file>
2. Set threaded mode: 'o', 't' (drawn correctly)
3. Cause uxterm to redraw, e.g. by switching desktops, iconifying/restoring
uxterm, etc. (drawn incorrectly, some parts of the screen revert to the
uxterm background colour where they had previously been set to a different
colour)
Today, I noticed a somewhat different situation with hdparm:
1. man hdparm (I happen to have hdparm 5.5-4, and use less(1) as a pager)
2. Scroll to line 44 (in the paragraph describing the '-c' option)
3. Note that part of the sentence "A numeric paramter[sic] can be used..."
is omitted (this is clear from reading the text). It reads:
"A numeric parameter can be used to enable/disable 32‐bit I/O support:
Currently sup‐ ported values include 0 to disable 32‐bit I/O support,
[whitespace] enable 32-bit data transfers"
while the text should read:
"A numeric parameter can be used to enable/disable 32‐bit I/O support:
Currently sup‐ ported values include 0 to disable 32‐bit I/O support,
_1_ to enable 32-bit data transfers" ("_1_ to in place of [whitespace])
Setting LC_ALL=C prevents both these effects (I typically use en_US.UTF-8).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
hi xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client data
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- mdz
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