towards 4.9.4

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:01 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:51 AM Berthold Stoeger via subsurface
> <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>> 
>> If I do a "su" into the other user I get the garbled version.
>> 
>> If I do a "su -" into the other user I get the sensible version.
> 
> I _think_ the main difference should be just your environment.
> 
> So you can do "printenv" for both cases and see if something stands out.
> 
> Although it's likely something indirect that just ends up meaning that
> one version uses your old settings, and the other one doesn't.

Yes, if you 'su -' then you actually log in as that person, use their HOME
path, etc, vs with 'su' you still have your current environment.
All this means is that there is indeed something that we stored in the 
preferences that garbles the screen.

More to add to the todo list.

/D