minicom draws garbage when gnome-terminal is maximized

[Valentin Neacsu]

Binary package hint: minicom

I run minicom from a gnome-terminal window. When I make that window full-screen, minicom enters a redraw (?) loop and it becomes unusable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
 libncurses5 5.7+20090207-1ubuntu1
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: minicom
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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[Valentin Neacsu (valentin.neacsu)]

Binary package hint: minicom

I run minicom from a gnome-terminal window. When I make that window full-screen, minicom enters a redraw (?) loop and it becomes unusable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
 libncurses5 5.7+20090207-1ubuntu1
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: minicom
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Claudio Saavedra (csaavedra)]

I can confirm this bug in Ubuntu 9.04 with minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1. Switching between tabs causes the same.

[Octavio Alvarez (alvarezp)]

I can confirm this too. It appears that minicom is trying to resize itself to an 80-column windows, which is impossible due to maximization.

However, previous versions didn't try this and worked ok.

[Octavio Alvarez (alvarezp)]

This didn't happen on Intrepid. However, in both, Intrepid and Jaunty releases, minicom reports the following version:

minicom version 2.3 (compiled Oct 24 2008)

Also, the package version is the same in both releases of Ubuntu: minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1.

[Sebastian Wiesinger (sebastianw)]

Hi,

I also noticed that minicom is resizing gnome-terminal to 80 columns. This only happens with gnome-terminal not with e.g. xterm.

This is quite annoying because some routers/switches display log lines longer than 80 columns and don't do linewraps. To see the log I now have to start xterm first before starting minicom. This is a possible workaround but I would prefer that minicom wouldn't resize the windows.

I don't know if this is a problem with minicom or with gnome-terminal...

[generic (atpashov)]

Hi,
A workaround that works for me if you want to use minicom in maximized window:
Just open every time minicom with the "-s" option do not change anything and after that chose exit and you are dropped at working minicom maximized window.
By the way it seems to be a gnome-terminal bug rather than minicom one cuz I tried to change every kind of setting in minicom menu for displaying.
Regards

[huubs (huubs)]

I had a problem with a flickering screen when running minicom on EEE-PC with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. The workaround reported by generic (starting minicom with the -s option and not changing anything) worked for me as well. Thanks generic!

[Ioannis Ramfos (isr81)]

Seems to be a problem with gnome-terminal, as 'xterm' does not have the issue. With 'xterm', minicom resizes correctly without needing the -s option.
Also, in a real console, minicom correctly renders in full screen.

[Octavio Alvarez (alvarezp)]

I noticed that issuing "reset" in gnome-terminal brings the window width back to 80 cols; not so in xterm. I don't remember gnome-terminal doing this in Intrepid and earlier.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone still having this problem in karmic.

Regards
chuck

[Aaron C. de Bruyn (darkpixel2k)]

I am not seeing this on a fresh install of 9.10 (Karmic)

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the response. Marking as fixed release.

Regards
chuck

[Ab (1010s1011)]

I want to confirm that this looks like it's fixed in Karmic