Comment # 1 on bug 1080313 from Egmont Koblinger

This is caused by an incompatibility between terminfo and slang, see the
duplicate report.

This is not a bug in gnome-terminal, which has, by the way, defaulted to
TERM=xterm-256color for about 3 years now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1079543 ***