Bugzilla – Bug 1054681
ncurses rendering broken with xterm in gnome-terminal
Last modified: 2017-09-01 08:58:29 UTC
Created attachment 737427 [details] Screenshot of broken mutt rendering I found bug 1054448 among others, but that report is about yast2. I am experiencing the attached rendering with mutt - even w/o being familiar with mutt, it's obvious the tree formatting of the threads and the status bar are not properly rendering and have weird gaps. (Curiously, ^L refreshing does change they layout, but it alas remains broken.) # rpm -q mutt libncurses6 mutt-1.8.3-181.2.x86_64 libncurses6-6.0-27.2.x86_64 (I suspect libncurses is to blame since mutt was last changed in early July, and gnome-terminal was last changed in May.)
(Sorry for having set this to major previously, trick of the mouse.) Turns out that TERM=gnome-256color avoids this. So, workaround, happy. And maybe that's the correct solution, but still, xterm-256color used to work fine? Is this intentional? (If so, please close as INVALID.)
This is not limited to gnome-terminal, I also see it in KDE Konsole (for example when running alsamixer). The TERM=gnome-256color workaround helps in Konsole.
Per the comments on Bug 1054448, the problem is in terminfo-base and not YaST. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1054448 ***