On 2019-07-31 09:18 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 5:42 AM T. Joseph Carter
> <tjcar...@spiritsubstance.com> wrote:
>> The latest version of tmux has issues with screen updates under GNOME
>> Terminal with ncurses apps. This causes eg weechat's scrollback (pgup,
>> pgdn) to not draw correctly, causes specific issues with aptitude as
>> well.
>
> Thanks for the report. I don't use GNOME Terminal and I haven't
> experienced any similar issues myself, but I will investigate.
>
> Can you provide more details about how to reproduce using aptitude?
>
>> I think this may be the result of the cherry-pick of 38b8a198bac6 from
>> upstream, you may need an additional patch as well.
>
> Why? This is a fix for a crash which doesn't look related.
>
> Do you experience the issue only when multiple panes are used in a window?
>
>> I suspect the version of tmux found in experimental will not have this
>> problem, but I haven't tested it yet. I expect you're holding it due to
>> the freeze, but I do not believe 2.9a-2 makes a good release candidate.
>
> No, the freeze is over but the 3.0 release was pushed back to October,
> so 3.0-rc will remain in experimental for the immediate future.
Maybe the problems with screen updates have been triggered by
ncurses-base 6.1+20190713-1, see #933572? I could reproduce that one
with tmux 2.8-3, 2.9a-2 and 3.0~rc3-1.
Cheers,
Sven
