xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

gde · 2011-06-18 16:37:34

Hello,

I'm quite new to archlinux though I've been using linux for years. I've just migrated from ubuntu where I got in the habit of using tiling windows manager (awesome). However I noticed a problem I didn't have before with my terminal.

It's like urxvt has a "refresh" problem. for exemple, when I launch "htop", the information appears but it refreshs oddly, some time the "uptime" never changes, the cpu status bar "reloads" unfrequently.
This problem occurs everywhere, when I do a simple "ls" I some times get blank lines followed by a normal prompt. The stange thing is, if I switch tile, that blank line magically shows the information it was supposed to show.

I tried xterm, but noticed the same thing going on. I even tried wmfs in case it could come from awesome, but I still get this issue.

for information : I'm on a laptop that has GMA965 as graphic chipset (dell inspiron 1525).

Has anybody experienced something similar ?

regards

Last edited by gde (2011-06-20 20:14:56)

chrisbuchholz · 2011-06-18 17:44:14

I was having a similar problem up until yesterday.

I run Arch and Gnome3 on my MacBook Pro which has a nvidia graphics card, and as I've always done, I just installed the proprietary nvidia driver when I set this machine up. But I was having the "redraw" problem (as I like to call) all the time. After many days looking for a way to fix it, some guy on #gnome on irc.gnome.org mentioned that it could be the graphics driver that caused the problem. So I uninstalled the nvidia driver and installed nouveau driver and now everything works perfectly.

Perhaps your machine is suffering from something similar?

gde · 2011-06-19 13:01:19

I was suspecting my graphic driver to be the problem… unfortunatly I don't have many alternatives since it's an intel chipset. I think I solved it by using the "-git" version on AUR. I can't really tell, though since I've just made the switch.

I'll mark as solved after confirmation and try to post a bug report or something to fix this. I don't want to stay on git, it's far too bleeding edge for me.

gde · 2011-06-20 21:26:12

I thought it was fixed but I was wrong

This is an annoying bug, I won't not be able to stay on arch if I can't do anything about this. I filled in a bug report : 24790.

aaronlevin · 2014-07-09 13:14:23

Did anyone fix this or realize what it is? I am having this issue with Arch, urxvt, on my Macbook Pro Retina. For example, here is the output when I'm uploading somethign to s3 and then spitting out some basic HTML:

WARNING: Waiting 3 sec...
Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.mp3 -> s3://wc-tracks/Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.mp3 [1 of 1]
3727211 of 3727211 100% in 133s 27.20 kB/s done3727211 34% in 52s 23.4 1302528 of 3727211 34% in Public URL of the object is: http://wc-tracks.s3.amazonaws.com/Weird … Fete.mp300 of 3727211 >> ... uploading Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.ogg 23.7 1445888 of 3727211 38% in 62s 22.7 1544192 oWARNING: Module python-magic is not available. Guessing MIME types based on file extensions.211 43% in 65s 24.Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.ogg -> s3://wc-tracks/Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.ogg [1 of 1] 49% in 1362338 of 1362338 100% in 16s 78.45 kB/s done 1974272 of 3727211 52% in 73s 26.3 2035712 of 3727211 Public URL of the object is: http://wc-tracks.s3.amazonaws.com/Weird … e_Fete.ogg 26.8 2203648 of 3727211 59% in 79s 27.1 2244608 of 3727211 60% in 80s 27.1 2359296 of 3727211 63% in 82s 27<audio controls="controls" class="audioTrack" preload="none">211 67% in 85s 28.7 2617344 of 3727211 70% in 86s <source src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/wc-tracks/Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.ogg" type='audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"' /> 28.1 2879488 of 3727211 77% in 94s 29.6 2961408 of 3727211 79% in 95s 30.1 3002368 of 3727<source src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/wc-tracks/Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.mp3" type='audio/mpeg; codecs="mp3"' /> 3727211 83% in 101s 29.8 3125248 of 3727211 83% in 103s 29.4 3194880 of 3727211 85% in</audio> 29.6 3231744 of 3727211 86% in 106s 29.6 3235840 of 3727211 86% in 107s 29.3 3293184 of 372721<p class="audioTrack"><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/wc-tracks/Weird_Canada-Les_Zerreurs-Bonne_Fete.mp3" target="_blank">TRACKNAME</a></p> 113s 28.77 kB/s

You can see the update information, which requires a redraw on the last line, is all mixed with the final output of the html (basic `echo` stuff).

☭ uname -r
3.15.4-1-ARCH
☭ urxvt -version
urxvt: "version": unknown or malformed option.
rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.20 - released: 2014-04-26
options: perl,xft,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,fade,transparent,tint,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm
☭ cat ~/.Xresources | grep -Ev '^!'
URxvt*perl-ext:
URxvt*perl-ext-common:

urxvt*foreground: white
urxvt*background: black

*color0:  #2E3436
*color1:  #a40000
*color2:  #4E9A06
*color3:  #C4A000
*color4:  #3465A4
*color5:  #75507B
*color6:  #ce5c00
*color7:  #babdb9
*color8:  #555753
*color9:  #EF2929
*color10: #8AE234
*color11: #FCE94F
*color12: #729FCF
*color13: #AD7FA8
*color14: #fcaf3e
*color15: #EEEEEC

URxvt*scrollstyle: plain         
URxvt*scrollBar_right: true
URxvt*fading:                         30
URxvt*font:                            xft:Dejavu Sans Mono:pixelsize=20

Last edited by aaronlevin (2014-07-09 13:17:30)

Trilby · 2014-07-09 13:22:37

Please do not "necrobump" old threads.

As a majority of archers use the terminals frequenty/consistently, and as urxvt shows up as the top used in all our polls, this is almost certainly not the same problem from three years ago.

Feel free to open a new thread describing your problem. My first suggestion, though, would be to ensure you are not setting your TERM variable anywhere (e.g. bashrc).

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#1 2011-06-18 16:37:34

xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

#2 2011-06-18 17:44:14

Re: xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

#3 2011-06-19 13:01:19

Re: xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

#4 2011-06-20 21:26:12

Re: xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

#5 2014-07-09 13:14:23

Re: xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

#6 2014-07-09 13:22:37

Re: xterm and urxvt refresh problem ?

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