Two possible suggestions. Hit control-o to straighten out a screen usually done after opening a binary file with less. Other possibility if you can get on an orca level is to run xrefresh command. On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Hart Larry wrote: > Well, now for nearly 1week all 23 of my consoles have a continuing jumble, > with text hanging around from days ago, even when new lines should have > replaced them. I can temporarily clear this up with control+c. This has > become a factoor no matter what program, whether Lynx, pine, get_flash_videos. > Earlier it felt like when I was in Lynx, my problem left. > This is Debian 2.6.32 because Speakup will not work with my DecTalk U S B on a > later kernel. > I tried running reset but that didn't help, also, switching to single user > mode-and-back again, incase there were stuck programs. > Recently I have had trouble when running mplayer2 with something called > "ggtic" > Some1 suggested maybe my fonts were messed up, he had me run setupcon -vf > but that didn't seem to be a right switch. > Can any1 please suggest something else I can try, as obviously I cannot always > accurately review a screen, but generally telnetted in to shellworld, I can at > least read mail. > Thanks so much in advance > Hart > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list