I haven't been able to boil down all these reports to a single coherent set of symptoms.
However, since this bug is currently parked on the "putty" package, I'll note that an obscure alternate-screen bug has been fixed upstream in PuTTY (and hence pterm) since 0.58; it would have the effect of putting the cursor in the wrong place when switching between screens: | r6788 | simon | 2006-08-15 13:45:21 +0100 (Tue, 15 Aug 2006) | 15 lines | | Aha! At long last I've managed to reproduce the intermittent problem | I've been having with the cursor sometimes restoring to the wrong | place when screen(1) terminates. The offending sequence of escape | sequences goes ESC 7 (save cursor), ESC [?47h (switch to alternate | screen), ESC 7 (save cursor _again_), do some stuff, ESC 8 (restore | cursor), run screen session for a bit, ESC [?47l (return to main | screen), ESC 8 (restore cursor). The final ESC 8 is expected to | restore the cursor to where it was saved by the initial ESC 7. | | Translation: the ESC 7 saved cursor state is part of the state we | must swap out when switching to the alternate screen. In other | words, we need to track _four_ cursor positions: active and saved, | on each of main and alternate screen. Previously we were tracking | only three. I had also been seeing this with trn4. Perhaps it can occur with aptitude too. I think this may fix at least some of the symptoms described in this report (in particular, the attachment 289071.png). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
