Problems with screen management

[Bill Vance]

I wish I could help, but that looks even more confusing
than what I've got.

Bill


On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, Bmarsh wrote:

> Here is what I reported on the bug..  and it shows exactly what I
> am seeing:
> 
> 
> 
>
>       Public bug reported: 
>
>       Konsole screen is corrupted .. i.e. not showing true
>       contents of a 
>       file. Observed in nano and the THE editors and
>       possibly in vi. 
>
>       Given the file: 
>
>       test of screen problems in Bionic beta 2  
>       03/09/18 xxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyy zzzzzzzzz qqqqqqq 
>       03/23/18 qqqqqqqqq rrrrrrrrr sssssssss ttttttt 
>       03/29/18 aaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbb ccccccccc ddddddd 
>       04/06/18  
>       04/13/18 ddddddddd eeeeeeeee fffffff 
>
>       the first screen shown in nano or THE will be: 
>
>       test of screen problems in Bionic beta 2  
>       03/09/18 x y z q 
>       03/23/18 q r s t 
>       03/29/18 a b c d 
>       04/06/18  
>       04/13/18 d e f 
> 
>
>       This occurs in Konsole under Kubuntu 18.04 beta 2 in
>       xfce4 as well as Plasma. 
>
>       Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development
>       branch) 
>       Release: 18.04 
> 
> 
>    
> 
> 
> 
>
>       From: Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
>       Subject: Re: Problems with screen management
>       Date: 4/15/18 2:07 PM
>       To: Kubuntu user technical support
>       <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 
> 
>
>       I'm seeing a very similar problem with Kubuntu 16.04
>       amd64.
>
>       Let me go through the ordering, maybe there's a clue
>       here.
>       Whenever I upgrade to a new OS level, I usually wind
>       up
>       screwing something up, and having to re-install 3, or
>       4 times
>       in order to fix the problem(s) in the unfamiliar new
>       territory.
>
>       Moving up to 16.04 from 12.04, I noted the following
>       problem(s).
>       Right after installing, eveything seemed to be working
>       ok while
>       doing some initial setup stuff. Then, after doing the
>       usual update/
>       upgrade, weird stuff such as you describe started
>       happening. The
>       last time, the weird stuff didn't wait for the
>       update/upgrade, but
>       started happening immediately.
>
>       In the Bash shell, and the editors as well, the cursor
>       doesn't make
>       it all the way to the right side of the screen. In the
>       shell it
>       mostly drops down to the next line down. In nano, it
>       goes
>       behind the, "$", character, or to the other side of
>       it.
>
>       In the shell, the command line should look something
>       like:
>
>       # abcdefg -12345X
>
>       With the cursor at the, "X", point of the line.
>       Instead, it looks
>       something like:
>
>       # abcdefg -12345 X
>
>       If I cursor left, to fix a typo, it then looks
>       something like this:
>
>       # abcdefg -12 X345
>
>       Also, there are missing characters. These seem to be
>       mostly on
>       the end. For instance, two usernames are, "mml", and,
>       "mmr".
>
>       Doing a, "ls", of the /home dir, shows two usernames
>       as being,
>       "mm". I've noticed this elsewhere, too, but mainly
>       here. The names
>       haven't changed, they just aren't being displayed
>       properly.
>
>       I hope someone knows how to fix this.
>
>       Bill
> 
>
>       On Sat, 14 Apr 2018, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>
>       > I've been running Kubuntu/xfce on 3 Amd64 machines
>       and have run
>       > into serious problems with screen management in
>       editors.  Moving
>       > the cursor into the screen display will often cause
>       the data on
>       > that display to move around on its own or to become
>       corrupted.
>       >
>       > I have seen this in the THE editor, as well as nano
>       and vi.   It
>       > makes the editors unusable because once data moves
>       around, you
>       > cannot treat the data as being correct.
>       >
>       > This is while running Kubuntu Beta 2 on an AMD64
>       machine.   Will
>       > try to test it on an i386 machine as well.
>       >
>       > A very serious problem for me. 
>       >
>       >
>       >
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