Bug#690835: xterm: Sometimes xterm does not show last lines of the output when xft font is used
Package: xterm
Version: 278-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When xterm is using Xft rendering of fonts, and the output reach the end of the
window, last lines are sometimes replaced by blank lines. The frequency of this
behaviour is not regular. For example, you can execute the 'ls' command twenty
times and see five times that the last lines are not shown, or see a normal
behaviour all times. Alt-tab and other actions cause the screen to refresh and
display everything.
The easiest way to reproduce this behaviour is call xterm with '-fa' option:
xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman:size=11'
and press "return key" until reach the end of the window. Then two in three
times the last line is a blank line, rather than the expected prompt of the
shell and the cursor.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7
ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
ii libutempter0 1.1.5-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.10-2
ii libxft2 2.3.1-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-1
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7~1
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
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