Re: Display problem
On 2007-11-26, Steve <dlist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a Debian box at home where I fetchmail my mails, then procmail
> them and finally read them with mutt either locally or via putty from
> work. I have several profiles which I switch to using F<keys>. Apart
> from some gpg keys problems which should be fixed in a near futur,
> everything works well.
>
> After this short introduction, here is my problem, which isn't critical
> but tiring. When I use TAB to go to the next unread message, sometimes
> the display starts to move up and the whole message becomes mixed up.
> After some investigation, all I found to fix this problem is to Ctrl-L
> which redisplays the screen correctly. But this fix only works for a
> while and I can be sure that a half a dozen messages later the problem
> comes up again.
>
> I don't if this a bug or a configuration problem. It happens both
> locally (using konsole) or remotely using putty. Someone told me it
> could be related to my locales (utf-8) but my Debian box is utf-8
> localized.
Looking back at the original problem description, it is odd that the
same problem occurs locally using konsole and remotely using PuTTY.
What size windows are you using? I wonder if this could be
something as simple as the LINES and/or COLUMNS environment
variables not being set properly. If you're not doing so already,
try running mutt in a terminal with 80 columns and 24 lines and see
if you observe the same problem.
Another approach to solving this might be to run mutt locally in an
xterm window, something Kyle and I might understand better than
konsole or PuTTY. If it still misbehaves, we could use 'script' to
look at the character sequences actually being sent to the terminal
at the point where the display starts to mess up and see what mutt
is _trying_ to do with the display.
I'd still check LINES and COLUMNS first, though.
Regards,
Gary