Bug 71980

Summary:	minicom characters are scrambled in konsole
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Lasse K. Christiansen <lasse>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	three snapshots of minicom starting. Menu (CTRL+A-Z) and normal terminal

Description Lasse K. Christiansen 2004-01-06 15:57:34 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.94)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

I just tried out minicom in konsole and for some reason the text display is garbled. I use it for serial connections to routers and the router configuration looks fine but all the windows drawing and clearing of character after closing windows are scrambled.

Tried starting minicom with --ansi and with --term=linux.

Tried changing settings in Konsole but nothing worked.

Downloaded xterm and tried minicom there. Everything worked perfectly.

Will attach a screenshot showing the problem.

Comment 1 Lasse K. Christiansen 2004-01-06 16:00:43 UTC

Created attachment 3998 [details]
three snapshots of minicom starting. Menu (CTRL+A-Z) and normal terminal

Comment 2 Thiago Macieira 2004-01-06 21:34:48 UTC

Comment on attachment 3998 [details]
three snapshots of minicom starting. Menu (CTRL+A-Z) and normal terminal

Please identify MIME types properly. Your package contains only one snapshot,
not three.

Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2004-01-06 21:45:07 UTC

I've just tested minicom under Konsole and xterm. In none of the four configurations that I tried did it look right.

In Konsole, minicom always strips the high bit off every character it outputs, except for its line-drawing characters. In xterm, accents look wrong as well.

This bug has existed for as long as I've used minicom, in every terminal I've tried. I guess it's a problem with minicom and its termcap/terminfo handling, not Konsole, since any other program works fine.

Comment 4 Lasse K. Christiansen 2004-01-07 01:50:37 UTC

You're right ! Only one screen shot. My mistake ! should be enough though.

Can't understand why it's a problem with minicom since i had no problems at all with kde 3.1.X on Redhat 9. And minicom works just fine in xterm on fedora core 1.

Comment 5 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-03-29 06:36:41 UTC

KDE 3.4 works fine here... a lot of stuff has happened since this report.