Viestissä Tiistai 22. Huhtikuuta 2003 06:08, Michael Fratoni kirjoitti: > On Monday 21 April 2003 01:36 am, Atul Chitnis wrote: > > Under KDE (not sure whether under Gnome, since I don't use it), I often > > have situations where an application (say pine) clears the screen of > > the Konsole window, but leaves behind scattered characters across the > > terminal window. It then paints the terminal window with new > > information, with these characters intermingled. > > I've seen the same thing using KDE. For example, try "more > /usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml" and scroll down several pages. 'q' to > quit, and the screen is covered in artifacts. I have also seen this since RHL8 using ATI Rage128 and Radeon 9000 display cards. > > Any clues on how to fix this? > > No idea on a real fix. > I just use 'reset' to clear the terminal. ;) The problem appears to be font-related, try some other font than the default. I recently installed the new Bitstream Vera fonts, and the garbage disappeared. Lucida Typewriter is another correctly working font. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxxxxxxxx