screen-profiles should clean up text after closing

Bug #349677 reported by Jonathan Davies
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byobu
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screen-profiles (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

Binary package hint: screen-profiles

It would be nice if any backlog in the terminal was cleaned up after closing/detaching screen and just displaying the default "[screen detached]".

However the termcapinfo option; the buttom coloured bar is left along with everything else.

Jonathan Davies (jpds)
Changed in screen-profiles (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in screen-profiles:
status: New → Confirmed
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Jonathan Davies (jpds) wrote :

Upon further tests, altscreen just cleans up the screen when applications like vim are closed. It seems that it's the termcapinfo in /usr/share/screen-profiles/profiles/common that's keeping the backlog in the terminal after closing/detaching screen.

description: updated
summary: - screen-profiles does not respect 'altscreen' option
+ screen-profiles should clean up text after closing
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Advice from upstream in summary:

<micahcowan> In summary, you are forced to choose between providing the secondary screen-buffer, and providing scrollbars. It's easier for users to switch "to" scrollbars than to switch "to" using ti/te, and using ti/te is how screen was intended to operate (when it's available).

:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

I'll go ahead and add 'altscreen on' to the common profile, which will go ahead and clean up after programs that support it (emacs, vi).

Hopefully that will help some.

:-Dustin

Changed in screen-profiles (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → kirkland
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in screen-profiles:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package screen-profiles - 1.42-0ubuntu1

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screen-profiles (1.42-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * bin/cpu-freq: fix cpu freq for powerpc hardware, LP: #352286;
    use 2 decimals for GHz (bring this down to 1 decimal when cpus hit 10GHz)
  * debian/postinst, debian/prerm, screen: remove some maintainer hacks
    that should be cleaned up before Jaunty GA, LP: #352291
  * po/*: screen-profiles-export translation template
  * profiles/common: added 'altscreen on', which cleans the screen for
    programs that support this, such as vi and emacs, LP: #349677
  * bin/logo, profiles/common, profiles/generate: dynamically print logo
    LP: #352632
  * screen-profiles-export, screen-profiles-export.1: drop distro selection,
    no longer needed
  * added logo for Arch linux

  [ Adi Roiban ]
  * debian/install, debian/rules, po/POTFILES.python, po/POTFILES.sh,
    po/es.po, po/fr.po, po/screen-profiles.pot: LP: #347521, i18n support
    in the screen-profiles build and install

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:31:10 -0500

Changed in screen-profiles:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in screen-profiles:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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