towards 4.9.4

Berthold Stoeger bstoeger at mail.tuwien.ac.at
Sun Apr 12 12:14:50 PDT 2020


On Sonntag, 12. April 2020 21:10:35 CEST Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > 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.

I removed the .config/Subsurface directory and that didn't make any 
difference. Could also bee some KDE/Qt settings.

I didn't see anything obvious in the printenv output.

Berthold





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