Problems with screen management

[Bill Vance]

I just noticed that the list software messed up the example I
gave below by removing some space characters.  I have
inserted some underscores to make up for this, so it shows
whats going on better, (even though it doesn't like to show
the underscore character on my system).


On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, Bill Vance wrote:

> 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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