Bug#364993: gnome-terminal: ncurses apps have wrong display in newly openeded, non-resized tab

[Tim Van Holder]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: important


When I open a new gnome-terminal and run an ncurses app (say, mutt), it renders just fine.
However, when I then open a fresh tab, and run an ncurses app in that, it displays garbage.
What kind of garbage seems to depend on the app: mutt and emacs -nw render their screen
partially offscreen (the bottom half is visible on the top half of the gnome-terminal window;
the bottom half of the window stays blank); nano goes completely wild.
It seems to be at least partially related to the setting of $TERM to 'xterm'.  If I set it
to some other value (say, 'linux') and rerun mutt, it looks fine; setting it back to 'xterm'
causes the bad display again.
The other thing that works is to open a new tab, then resize the gnome-terminal-window; after
that, the screens are rendered fine (regardless of $TERM).

All in all, a weird problem - I'm reporting it against gnome-terminal because it does not
occur in the first window, only in new tabs, but it could just as well be a ncurses problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center      1:2.12.3-2     utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data       2.14.0-1       Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.11.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.14.0-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4               2.14.0-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.5.1-2      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.10.2-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.14.0-2       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.14.0-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.14.0-2       GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.16-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.0-1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.12.1-2       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.8-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte4                   1:0.12.0-1     Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0.2-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-10.1    A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.12.2-4   Help browser for GNOME 2

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