On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:22:45AM -0400 or thereabouts, Mark Mielke wrote: > I'm at fedora-devel-latest. > > I'm not sure where the problem is, but in the last 3 or 4 weeks, I've > been forced to TERM=gnome in my gnome-terminals, otherwise mutt will > eventually (within 1 or 2 scrolled screens) get into a confused state. > Using Control-L to refresh the screen does work. [snip] > I scanned around bugzilla. I didn't find a report that matched my > symptoms. If somebody who knows what this issue might be could tell > me what to file the bug under, I will do it. I have two mutt-inna-gnome-terminal bugs which I cannot properly reproduce, track down, or otherwise turn into a bugzilla entry. And since FC1 was involved, I expected to get a "Is it fixed with FC2?" response if I tried. But if either of these fits your symptoms, file that bug and then I can add anything potentially relevant :) On my home machine, since Fedora Core 1, I have found that the display gets messed up when mutt in a gnome-terminal is on the main index view. It's only sometimes, and ^L fixes it temporarily. It has only ever happened in a mailbox which uses sort="thread", but that's 90% of my mailboxes so I don't know whether that's relevant. And I generally see it on largish mailboxes (80+ messages, enough to need two screenfuls), but again, that's 90% of my mailboxes. My gnome-terminals are generally 80xheight-of- screen, and it's generally when I go to another screenful of messages. It looks as though two lines have got muddled up together, so that instead of 1 N date here Somebody Sender ( xxx) --->Subject line 2 N date here Another Sender ( xx) -->Re: Subject line I get something like: 1 N date here Somebody Sender ( xxx) --2 N date here Another Se nder ( xx) -->Re: Subject line The other is weirder because it "just started" one day and I know of no changes on either machine. I ssh from home machine to another machine, a big one with lots of other users, many of whom use mutt (especially now that pine and elm are gone :)). Its motd says the box "has been live-upgraded to Fedora Core 1. There should be no obvious differences." It has said that for while a while: long before I noticed this problem occur. My standard gnome-terminals are black text on white background. When I ssh in and start mutt, the screen appears to go black: no prompt, no nothing. In fact mutt has started, but is showing black text on a black background. If I do "TERM=vt220 mutt", everything works. Sysadmins on that box assure me nothing has changed. strace says that mutt is not looking anywhere weird for settings, and I can't see a colour setting that would cause this in the obvious locations. I know nothing has changed on my box. I haven't even moved to FC2 on it. Do either of these ring a bell? Despite your subject line, mutt isn't linked against slang on any of the boxes involved here. So that might be one out of the way. I shall experiment some more with TERM="blah" settings, but so far, only vt220 works to sort the second one out. Telsa
