Re: Screen corruption with ncurses-6 snapshots since 20170729

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 09:24:24AM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote:
> I have ncurses-6 installed and update to that latest snapshot from time to 
> time. Today I updated to the 21070826
> snapshot and found that I get some screen corruption when using the kernel's 
> 'make menuconfig' command. The latest
> version that doesn't produce the corruption is 20170722.
> 
> My terminal is mate-terminal-1.18.1 with the character encoding set to 
> "Current Locale (UTF8)". The output from the

That's VTE-based.  If your $TERM is "xterm", there's an FAQ for that.

> The corruption can also, however, be seen in xterm-330.

hmm....

> The corruption can be viewed by running 'make menuconfig' in the directory
> containing the linux kernel source.  Navigate
> to Device-Drivers-->Input Device Support-->Horizontal screen resolution.  I
> have a (.png) screen dump if that would help.

A picture would help :-)

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