"screen" getting garbled

crown · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 64

I'm having a problem with screen where it will sometimes start corrupting the display. Even if I switch between various windows, it doesn't go away. The only way to "fix" it seems to be by detaching and reattaching several times. For a sample of what's happening I took a screenshot which you can see below:

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Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how I might fix it? This last time that it happened I was using midnight commander to copy lots of files and mc was taking a long time to complete (or even start) the operation, though it never hits 100% cpu--at most about 25%.

theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

I had the same problem during the Gentoo install, the only way I could fix it was to kill the emerge and type

Superfly · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 34

If I use centericq in screen this happens to me a lot. I usually end up having to do a detach and then start it back up with screen -D -R. I ended up just giving up and running centericq in seperate window as opposed to a seperate screen.

-Ryan

thehyperintelligentslug · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 49 Location: Edinburgh

There are another couple of threads floating around about this.

If you hit Control-L it will refresh the screen.
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