GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 344258
does not emulate correctly legacy dec vt terminals (escape sequences problem?)
Last modified: 2007-11-28 14:04:06 UTC
Hi, Emmanuel Kasper reported in Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/369867: """ When connecting to a OpenVMS box that expects the terminal to be a dec vt terminal, the display is garbaged on gnome-terminal. On Konsole and xterm, the display is fine. Maybe this is because gnome-terminal does not implement some rarely used escape sequences of the dec vt 100 family. This bug is easily reproductible. How to reproduce the bug : 1 - ssh to dahmer.vistech.net, a non-profit that gives free OpenVMS accounts 2- login as user demo 3- display terminal settings SHOW TERM on the prompt 4- you can change it with something like SET TERM/DEV=VT100 5- enter NOTES ( full screen BBS system ) and see the garbarged display. exit from notes is with Control-Z """ I confirm this behavior. gnome-terminal spits: ** (gnome-terminal:8355): WARNING **: Pas de manipulation définie pour la séquence de contrôle « select-locator-events ».= Bye,
I can confirm this behaviour. I use gnome-terminal to access a corporate OpenVMS server. Running ed (a fullscreen text editor), Powerforce (A warehousing system) or anything that uses escape sequences a lot results in garbled output. I currently use the "screen" application as a workaround (e.g. "screen ssh my.vms.box") but that is far from ideal.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 398401 ***