Package: xterm
Version: 398-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Sorry, this is probably a terrible bug report, but I figured that I
should let you know that I have had intermittent glitches with xterm
for a while now. It forces me to use a different x-terminal-emulator,
as I can't trust what is on the screen. Feel free to reject the bug
report if it provides no value. Happy to provide any additional debug
info. I reviewed both 463784 and 1014625 but I can't tell if it's the
same issue. It seems scroll related.
I observe the issue most often when I try to compose a message with mutt
+ nvim, and when I press enter, the following line is duplicated each
time. The glitches are cleared on the screen with ctrl-l but the issue
persist. I have also seen it with nvim editing a text file. I have
eliminated mutt, nvim, and tmux. I have seen it with both vim and nvim.
I also seen it a strange scroll behavior half way down the screen.
If I open a 2nd xterm when I see the issue, it too, will exhibit the
same issue, as will closing and retrying. Then I installed alacritty,
and when I started it, the glitches in xterm disappeared.
I have been on the same hardware for years, NVIDIA Corporation GM206GLM
[Quadro M2200 Mobile], and been tracking the stable driver.
/Allan
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u3
ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.3
ii libfreetype6 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1
ii libice6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
ii libutempter0 1.2.1-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.16-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b3
ii libxft2 2.3.6-1+b4
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-3+b4
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-3+b4
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.17-1+deb13u1
ii libxt6t64 1:1.2.1-1.2+b2
ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2.2
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii luit [luit] 2.0.20240910-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+7
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>
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