The version currently in portage is really outdated, 1.1.4 is available upstream (see URL) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Version 1.1.4 (current, 2006/09/11) Fixed JPopupMenu so that whenever it is displayed, the first menu item gets the input focus. Fixed the "ant makeDLL" target so that it asks the user for the operating system type. Version 1.1.3 (2006/08/14) Fixed the mouse support (in PuTTY and xterm), which was broken in version 1.1.2. Changed all debugging statements (previously using System.err.println()) to use Jakarta Commons Logging instead. Version 1.1.2 (2006/08/07) Implemented support for UTF-8 character set (contributed by Leos Urban). Applied bugfixes contributed by Sergio Szychowski to correct the management of FocusEvents and add support for setBounds() (for more compatibility with Swing). Version 1.1.1 (2005/12/17) Moved the project to SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/charva). Version 1.1.0 (2004/12/02) All calls to ncurses functions are now made from the same thread (because ncurses is not thread-safe). This should fix the screen-corruption that some users have been experiencing (especially on multiprocessor systems). Fixed the script-recording and -playback feature. Mouse-clicks (as well as keystrokes) are now correctly played back from the recorded script. Added a Makefile for the BeOS operating system. Version 1.0.2 (2004/05/25) Implemented a patch originally suggested by Olaf Wendt and Nick Liebmann, to ensure that only one instance of the keyboard-reader thread runs. Rearranged the project structure and implemented a new build system using Apache Ant. Fixed the colors in the Win32 version of Charva. Included a makefile for building a native Charva executable using gcj (the GNU compiler for Java) (contributed by Nick Liebmann).