GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 441918
Screen garbled immediately after starting nvi on a file
Last modified: 2009-06-07 16:24:36 UTC
[ Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/425195 ] "Immediately after I start vi (nvi, specifically) on a file that already exists, I see a partially garbled display. Control-L (forcing nvi to redraw the entire screen) fixes it." Using vte 0.16.3.
Created attachment 88972 [details] Capture of the garble
I've seen this a lot with vim using gnome-teriminal version 2.18.3-1 and libvte9 version 1:0.16.9-1, also on debian (lenny). Quickest way to reproduce garble is to select text with the mouse a few times. Things from other places in the window are often overlaid to produce the garble, but it has also been inverted desktop icons or images/text from an open browser window (<-- really strange).
Created attachment 100989 [details] more garble Perfect illustration: I switched back to my previous workspace after writing the comment, and garble appeared in the selection that I previously had made.
I'm sorry to spam this, but apart from having seen it in vim like the original reporter, I have now also seen this bug with finch (console-based IM app). It should be added that both finch and vim above were running inside gnu screen. However I have never seen this in a normal shell in a screen session.
What video driver? I'm pretty sure it's a driver issue.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!