Launching programs repeatedly disables them

[Andrei Paskevich]

I'm not sure that it's the same issue, but I've had similar
problems with elinks and worked around them by compiling gpm 
support out. Could you check if your problem is connected 
with mouse handling by turning it off in vim (:set mouse=) 
and in other misbehaving programs?

Andrei

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 at 00:48:13 (-0700), Doogster wrote:
> I'm on Slackware 12, and I've configured rxvt-unicode using the
> default options (no configure flags).
> 
> I've found that launching interactive text-based apps repeatedly from
> inside rxvt-unicode causes them to stop working after just a few
> repetitions.
> 
> To duplicate:
> 
> Launch vim and exit out of it;
> Launch links and exit out of it;
> Launch vim and exit out of it;
> Launch links and exit out of it;
> 
> After repeating the above a few times (around 7 each for vim and
> links), either vim or links always stops working. You would type the
> work "links", and you just see the cursor go to the next line, with no
> links interface starting, and then all you can do is ctrl-c out. Or
> you would start vim and it would go to a blank screen that doesn't
> respond to input.
> 
> This has happened with "su" and "mc" as well.
> 
> I've tried both rxvt-unicode 8.3. I've also tried a checkout from CVS
> (todays's). I got this problem both times. I don't see this problem
> when I use xterm, only when I use rxvt-unicode.
> 
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