Oh Sven, that does look related, and I didn't even notice that ncurses-base got updated too or I'd have investigated it. Looks like this is a ncurses problem. Did you find changing TERM fixed it?
Joseph On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 5:31 PM T. Joseph Carter < tjcar...@spiritsubstance.com> wrote: > It's hard to know what exactly causes it under aptitude. I did try it > using 3.0~rc3-1 from experimental and it does have a similar bug, I'm not > sure if it's quite the same though (it's glitching in aptitude in > inconsistent ways that I can't seem to exactly reproduce from one minute to > the next.) > > A very easy way to see it with weechat is to have a window with more than > one screenful in it (buffer 1 works) and use pgup/pgdn. You'll see the top > several lines redraw, but only those. > > Have a look at the attached screenshots. Notice that when I pgup, only the > top ~13 lines get redrawn and whitespace doesn't clear correctly. Below > that doesn't get redrawn at all. > > Version of gnome-terminal is 3.30.2-2 with libvte-2.91-0 version 0.54.2-2. > Hope that helps some. > > Joseph > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:05 AM Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> 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 >> >>
