On 21/09/17 18:30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2017, E Frank Ball wrote: >> Try xterm, or rxvt, or gnome-terminal > > thanks Frank, and also Dan , for your suggestions, but > the problem is actually with xterm. > I also tried with rxvt: it's worse. > Withe kde x-terminal-emulator, no problem.
That would be Konsole, unless they've made a new one. > Here are the results of different tests > > ==> xterm -geometry 100x40+0+70 -ls good > ==> xterm -geometry 120x40+0+70 -ls garbled screen > > ==> rxvt -geometry 80x40+0+70 -ls good > ==> rxvt -geometry 100x40+0+70 -ls garbled screen > > It looks like a bug, and I think I'll do a bug report, unless somebody > suggests something else. I'd be suspicious of the video drivers… perhaps Xlib (xterm, rxvt?) is triggering some bug in the video driver that Qt (Konsole) isn't. qterminal is another Qt-based terminal emulator that might confirm whether the widget set is having an effect. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
