minicom draws garbage when gnome-terminal is maximized

Binary package hint: minicom

I run minicom from a gnome-terminal window. When I make that window full-screen, minicom enters a redraw (?) loop and it becomes unusable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
 libncurses5 5.7+20090207-1ubuntu1
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: minicom
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

I can confirm this bug in Ubuntu 9.04 with minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1. Switching between tabs causes the same.

I can confirm this too. It appears that minicom is trying to resize itself to an 80-column windows, which is impossible due to maximization.

However, previous versions didn't try this and worked ok.

This didn't happen on Intrepid. However, in both, Intrepid and Jaunty releases, minicom reports the following version:

minicom version 2.3 (compiled Oct 24 2008)

Also, the package version is the same in both releases of Ubuntu: minicom 2.3-1ubuntu1.

Hi,

I also noticed that minicom is resizing gnome-terminal to 80 columns. This only happens with gnome-terminal not with e.g. xterm.

This is quite annoying because some routers/switches display log lines longer than 80 columns and don't do linewraps. To see the log I now have to start xterm first before starting minicom. This is a possible workaround but I would prefer that minicom wouldn't resize the windows.

I don't know if this is a problem with minicom or with gnome-terminal...

Hi,
A workaround that works for me if you want to use minicom in maximized window:
Just open every time minicom with the "-s" option do not change anything and after that chose exit and you are dropped at working minicom maximized window.
By the way it seems to be a gnome-terminal bug rather than minicom one cuz I tried to change every kind of setting in minicom menu for displaying.
Regards

I had a problem with a flickering screen when running minicom on EEE-PC with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. The workaround reported by generic (starting minicom with the -s option and not changing anything) worked for me as well. Thanks generic!

Seems to be a problem with gnome-terminal, as 'xterm' does not have the issue. With 'xterm', minicom resizes correctly without needing the -s option.
Also, in a real console, minicom correctly renders in full screen.

I noticed that issuing "reset" in gnome-terminal brings the window width back to 80 cols; not so in xterm. I don't remember gnome-terminal doing this in Intrepid and earlier.

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone still having this problem in karmic.

Regards
chuck

I am not seeing this on a fresh install of 9.10 (Karmic)

Thanks for the response. Marking as fixed release.

Regards
chuck

I want to confirm that this looks like it's fixed in Karmic