Re: Colour remnants from previous program

[Gilles Roy]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:06:45PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:40:17AM EDT, Gilles Roy wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:35:42AM -0400, Gilles Roy wrote:
> > >I've looked through the mutt docs and didn't see anything that could help 
> > >me. If I run Vim in CLI mode, it also has status bars but the problem 
> > >doesn't occur. However, there is a difference between Vim and Mutt. In 
> > >Mutt, the status bars don't actually reach the very edge of the screen 
> > >(i.e. they don't occupy the 1/2 character of extra space). The place where 
> > >they don't occupy is where the colour remnant is left behind. In Vim, the 
> > >status bar occupies the extra bit of character space.
> >
> > Sorry, this isn't true. The same problem occurs with status bars in Vim 
> > as in Mutt. I have also seen the same thing start happening with the 
> > extra partial space at the botton of the screen.
>
> Have you tried xterm?  That's what I use and I have never seen this.

The problem doesn't seem to happen with xterm, although I've managed to 
get a big red bar all along the side and bottom of my xterm window in 
fullscreen (i.e. the area along the edge too small to fit a character in 
it). I can't readily reproduce this problem though.

It must be something wrong with the Gnome window manager.


Thanks,
Gilles