Unwanted space preceeding cursor in Konsole

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello Everyone
I have recently received an unwanted space before the cursor in Konsole.  There 
is also some "corruption" of the fonts as one moves the cursor over text that is

on the command line:
1. I have a script called "UpdateGeeqie"
2. Open up "konsole"
3. After the normal "[steve@localhost ~]$" there is a space and then the
cursor.
4.  If I just type "UpdateGeeqie" it types as expected, except there is that 
space after the last letter, then the cursor.
5. If I use tab completion, it goes like this: "Update "
6. If I then hit tab again, I get a list of other scripts that start with the 
word "Update"  This is as expected.
7. But, if I hit backspace, "Update" becomes "Updat"
8. If I let it complete to "UpdateGeeqie" I get two "spaces" at the
end.  Of 
course the one is the normal one that you get when there are no more matching 
commands.

I think that I have read something about this before.  I have certainly never 
had it happen before, and I was not able to find anything about it through 
Google.  I have a feeling that this might end up being a really embaressing 
one...

As you may already know from other threads of mine, I am now running the 
rpmfusion nVidia driver.  All this started after I got that running.  I do not 
currently have any desktop effects enabled in my user account.

I even tried creating a new user, and it does it with a new user as well...

Almost forgot: xterm and gnome-terminal do not exhibit this behavior.  Only 
Konsole on KDE 4.4.3 (from the Fedora repo.)

Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.

Steven P. Ulrick

[g]

Ed Greshko wrote:
<snip>

>  Welcome...  But do keep in mind that the breakage was all my own
> fault. 
understood.

in the case of this install, i do believe it was broken from an update.
especially with yumex problems.

after a reboot after 1 update, my kde background went completely black
from being a revolving globe of earth.

after another update, had problems with internet icon, so on, and so on.

anyway, if i can get a good install this time, i will skip fedora 13
and maybe 14.

i have tried to use fedora with fel for electronic design, but with all
of problems, it just has not been.

thanks again.

later.


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[Ed Greshko]

On 06/07/2010 06:34 AM, g wrote:
>  Ed Greshko wrote:
>    
> > On 06/07/2010 04:32 AM, g wrote:
> >     
> >> something else that has been going on for a while, connection icon shows
> >> that internet is disconnected, yet ifconfig shows that it is up.
> >>
> >> in trying to run yumex, after it starts, it also thinks that internet
> >> connection is down. yet when i run yum from console, all is ok.
> >>   
> >>       
> > I had something similar happen a while back.  But, it was caused by
> > things that I did.  It was quite some time ago, under F12, when I
> > thought I knew the ins/outs of NM and how it would interact with the
> > previous networking scripts.
> >     
>  ed, thank you for replying.
>
>  good to know i am not alone in having problem.
>
>  using yum at cli was a work around, but yumex allows easier selection
>  of updates and seeing new software and installing.
>
>  looks like this week will be reinstalling fedora 12. at least i will
>  not have as many updates to go thru to see when it breaks. :)
>
>  and i will do selective updates to see if i can narrow down when problem
>  is happening.
>
>  if it breaks again, i will start a new thread.
>
>
>     
Welcome...  But do keep in mind that the breakage was all my own fault.


-- 
A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台
北市八德路四段

[g]

Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 06/07/2010 04:32 AM, g wrote:
> > something else that has been going on for a while, connection icon shows
> > that internet is disconnected, yet ifconfig shows that it is up.
> >
> > in trying to run yumex, after it starts, it also thinks that internet
> > connection is down. yet when i run yum from console, all is ok.
> >   
>  I had something similar happen a while back.  But, it was caused by
>  things that I did.  It was quite some time ago, under F12, when I
>  thought I knew the ins/outs of NM and how it would interact with the
>  previous networking scripts. 
ed, thank you for replying.

good to know i am not alone in having problem.

using yum at cli was a work around, but yumex allows easier selection
of updates and seeing new software and installing.

looks like this week will be reinstalling fedora 12. at least i will
not have as many updates to go thru to see when it breaks. :)

and i will do selective updates to see if i can narrow down when problem
is happening.

if it breaks again, i will start a new thread.

thanks again.


later.

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[Ed Greshko]

On 06/07/2010 04:32 AM, g wrote:
>  something else that has been going on for a while, connection icon shows
>  that internet is disconnected, yet ifconfig shows that it is up.
>
>  in trying to run yumex, after it starts, it also thinks that internet
>  connection is down. yet when i run yum from console, all is ok.
>     
I had something similar happen a while back.  But, it was caused by
things that I did.  It was quite some time ago, under F12, when I
thought I knew the ins/outs of NM and how it would interact with the
previous networking scripts.

Ed

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[g]

g wrote:
>  Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>  
> > Never mind...  When I was uninstalling some foreign language support that I
> > did not need, I uninstalled dejavu-sans-mono-fonts.noarch.  When I
> > re-installed it & restarted konsole, all was well.
> >
> > Sorry for the noise.
>  
>  not really 'noise'.
>  
>  i will try same later tonight or tomorrow and get back with results. 
problem i was having was under 'konsole'.

what is strange is it seems that problem of space has cleared without my
making any changes to fonts.

now i have a new problem, seems that konqueror is breaking and shutting down
on it's own, followed by a prompt to report.

same is happening when i try to right click background to shut down kde.

something else that has been going on for a while, connection icon shows
that internet is disconnected, yet ifconfig shows that it is up.

in trying to run yumex, after it starts, it also thinks that internet
connection is down. yet when i run yum from console, all is ok.

attempted to file reports, but this is failing also.

looks like i will try reformatting partition, reinstall fedora 12, run
updates and see what happens.


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[g]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:

>  Never mind...  When I was uninstalling some foreign language support
> that I
>  did not need, I uninstalled dejavu-sans-mono-fonts.noarch.  When I
>  re-installed it & restarted konsole, all was well.
>  
>  Sorry for the noise. 
not really 'noise'.

i will try same later tonight or tomorrow and get back with results.


later.

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[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello Everyone,
Never mind...  When I was uninstalling some foreign language support that I did 
not need, I uninstalled dejavu-sans-mono-fonts.noarch.  When I re-installed it & 
restarted konsole, all was well.

Sorry for the noise.

Steven P. Ulrick

[g]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>  Hello Everyone I have recently received an unwanted space before the
> cursor
>  in Konsole.  There is also some "corruption" of the fonts as one moves the
>  cursor over text that is on the command line: 
you do not mention which fedora, so i will presume 13, as most every one
has upgraded to it.

i have same/similar problem with fedora 12, except that it is in terminal.

i did not report it because i thought it was a unique problem to my install.

i usually wait a few weeks after updates come out in hopes that problems
will be corrected when i do update. also, i am on ultra lite 768k dsl, but
i am only getting a max speed of 100k with a usual speed of 48 - 56k. this
is a bit slow to try to use when new releases come out and everyone else is
downloading.

i now wish that i had brought this problem up before your mentioning this
as problem appears to have, in your case, transfered to 13 upgrade.

i am not sure when it happened, but i do know that it was when kde went
thru an update.

>  1. I have a script called "UpdateGeeqie"
>  2. Open up "konsole"
>  3. After the normal "[steve@localhost ~]$" there is a space and then the
>  cursor. 
i also get "~]$ #". [using '#' to show block cursor]

>  4.  If I just type "UpdateGeeqie" it types as expected,
> except there is
>  that space after the last letter, then the cursor. 
>  5. If I use tab completion, it goes like this: "Update "

>  6. If I then hit tab again, I get a list of other scripts that start
> with
>  the word "Update"  This is as expected. 
>  7. But, if I hit backspace, "Update" becomes
> "Updat" 
i actually get "Upat #". if i use left arrow key i get "Upat#e"

>  8. If I let it complete to "UpdateGeeqie" I get two
> "spaces" at the end. 
same.

>  Of course the one is the normal one that you get when there are no
> more
>  matching commands. 
agreed. i presume it is allowing passing of parameters.

>  As you may already know from other threads of mine, I am now running
> the 
>  rpmfusion nVidia driver.  All this started after I got that running. 
i am not using nVidia driver.

>  Almost forgot: xterm and gnome-terminal do not exhibit this behavior.
>  Only
>   Konsole on KDE 4.4.3 (from the Fedora repo.) 
i have not tried xterm and as stated above, i am using kde. have not used
gnome from 'day 1' of kde.

>  Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. 
that is all i can offer. i hope someone has a solution. i have lived with it
for a while now. fortunately, i am not in a terminal often.

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peace out.

tc,hago.

g
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