[Bug 452940] [NEW] Don't clear the screen when switching to the alternate screen
Public bug reported: I filed this bug and a patch upstream already but the patch has been ignored. It's getting pretty annoying having to fix this manually all the time. The VT100 command sequences CSI ? 47l (switch to primary screen) and CSI ? 47h (switch to alternate screen) are supposed to be non-destructive. Currently libvte always clears the alternate screen when you switch to it, making it useless. I.e., if you just listed some data in the alt screen, flipped back to the primary, and wanted to see the alt screen again you can't because it gets erased. The most obvious case where this occurs is using vi, more, less, man, or any other curses-based program. The init string switches to the alt screen, and exiting the program returns to the primary screen. I frequently need to flip back to see what I was just looking at, but it's always erased upon flipping. You can see the bug using the Gnome terminal or the xfce terminal, since they're both built on libvte. You can see the mostly-correct behavior using xterm. You can use 'echo -ne \033[' for the CSI sequence. I use these aliases in my .bashrc: alias xt0='echo -ne \033[?47l' alias xt1='echo -ne \033[?47h' xt0 switches to the primary screen, xt1 switches to the alt screen. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Oct 16 02:54:14 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: libvte9 1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2 [modified: usr/lib/libvte.so.9.9.2] ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: vte Uname: Linux 2.6.32-rc4 i686 XsessionErrors: (xfce4-mixer-plugin:2543): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2567): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed ** Affects: vte Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: vte (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- Don't clear the screen when switching to the alternate screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452940 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to vte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 452940] Re: Don't clear the screen when switching to the alternate screen
** Attachment added: Trivial fix http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33779026/dif ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33779027/Dependencies.txt ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #591648 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591648 ** Also affects: vte via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591648 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Don't clear the screen when switching to the alternate screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452940 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to vte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 191889] Re: [MASTER] [WORKAROUND] Offline Mode feature fails to detect proper online state for networks that are managed outside of network manager.
Another possible solution would be just to add a mechanism to NetworkManager (and the applet) to explicitly inform it of the existence of a connected interface. I'm using adb from the Android SDK to start a ppp session with my G1 phone, and ppp0 comes online with no trouble but NetworkManager doesn't see it and none of the current choices under Edit Connections are appropriate for adding it. (It really should fit under Mobile Broadband but NM doesn't even see the G1 as a usable device.) And pidgin still refuses to connect in this situation. (This is on jaunty...) -- [MASTER] [WORKAROUND] Offline Mode feature fails to detect proper online state for networks that are managed outside of network manager. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 224229] Re: Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low
I've also run into this problem a few times. I set my laptop's 1680x1050 display to 640x480 to try to watch a video, since there was no Xv support for this video card and the image was too small at native resolution. I was unable to get back to the original resolution after I finished watching the video. (This on Intrepid.) The dialog is simply too big and most of it is wasted space. -- Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224229 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
