#1050152 rxvt-unicode: prompt starts in the middle of the screen

Package:
rxvt-unicode
Source:
rxvt-unicode
Description:
RXVT-like terminal emulator with Unicode and 256-color support
Submitter:
Nick K.
Date:
2025-09-03 17:33:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1050152#5
Date:
2023-08-21 01:06:46 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

When opening terminal, prompt appears in the middle of the screen. I
disabled .profile, .bashrc and .xresources to no effect, so I assume,
it's not configuration issue.

Putting "clear" in .bashrc "solves" the issue. Issue disappears on
downgrading to 9.30-2+b4 from "stable" branch.

Also there is a discussion of this bug:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77062

#1050152#10
Date:
2025-09-03 17:22:13 UTC
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To:
A patch is available for this in the AUR -- https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/lines-rewrap.patch

This issue seems to manifest specifically for users of tiling WMs (I use xmonad).

I've tried to rebuild the package adding the patch above, and it seems to fix the issue.