[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#631793: rxvt-unicode: sometimes terminal is not properly refreshed

[Patrick Schoenfeld]

Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 9.11-1
Severity: important

Hi,

with rxvt-unicode I sometimes have a problem which seems like terminal
content is not properly refreshed.

I'll try to explain that a bit more understandable:
Consider a terminal running an irssi. If the problem occurs the terminal
won't show any changes (messages, joins/parts etc.) anymore.
There is a first aid solution: If I press Strg+L everything which
happened so far is shown properly and the problem is away for a while.
It then reappears as soon as a certain amount of activity happend on
that terminal. For that reason I could imagine that some kind of buffer
could be involved..

Note that irssi is just an example to better illustrate the issue at hand.
It also happens with ordinary terminals which just run a shell.
Unfortunately it does happen randomly. Sometimes the problem arises and
then stays for a while.
In this case a restart of the terminal is not enough. Restarting
X seems to help but only for a short while. Restarting the whole system
basically is the best option in that case as in most cases the problem
stays away for some hours..

Well.. I know its not much I can tell. The problem is not reliable
reproducible. Still, it happens often enough to really nag me. It does
not happen with other terminals, so I assume its a bug with rxvt-unicode
or an extension.
That said, I'm using the tabbed extension and the matcher extension.
I wouldn't wonder if the tabbed extension is the culprit, but I don't
have any idea where I could start debugging that.

Below is the content of the .Xdefaults file:
urxvt*background: black                                                         
urxvt*foreground: grey                                                          
urxvt*scrollBar: false                                                          
urxvt*saveLines: 65535                                                          
URxvt*perl-ext-common:  default,matcher                                         
URxvt.perl-ext: tabbed,matcher                                                  
URxvt*urlLauncher:      firefox                                                 
URxvt.matcher.button: 1                                                         
URxvt*urgentOnBell: true                     

Thanks in advance and best Regards
Patrick