Public bug reported: According to http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm, VT100 terminals should support these two escape sequences:
Save Cursor & Attrs <ESC>7 * Save current cursor position. Restore Cursor & Attrs <ESC>8 * Restores cursor position after a Save Cursor. VTE-based terminals (gnome-terminal, terminator etc) treat them as Save Cursor <ESC>[s * Save current cursor position. Unsave Cursor <ESC>[u * Restores cursor position after a Save Cursor. i.e. attributes are actually never restored. How to reproduce: echo -ne "\00337" # save attributes echo -ne "\0033[7m" # reverse video echo -ne "\00338" # restore attributes (i.e no reverse video anymore) echo this text should not be in inversed colors In gnome-terminal the message is displayed in reverse video. In xterm it is displayed correctly. Running Jaunty. ii gnome-terminal 2.26.0-0ubuntu2 ii libvte9 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2 ** Affects: vte (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- ANSI codes for saving/restoring attributes not supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407153 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs