Comment 10 for bug 850649

I use a 'visual beep' and often when I hit tab to complete a word and it 'beeps' the entire screen goes blank until I hit a key. I'm running GNU screen, and sometimes when the display comes back my status bar at the bottom is blank unless I detach and re-attach. Additionally, when I'm working with a debugger (pudb) or ipython sometimes a function will return from a call but since the screen doesn't refresh it looks like the program has hung up until I hit a key.

I've also noticed that sometimes when I re-attach screen the output seems to shrink - with extra whitespace added at the bottom until I exit out completely and re-start. I don't know if that's related or not, but it seems to have popped up at the same time as the terminal output problems.