Clean up ncurses mess in terminal after a crash

Question

I am drawing a TUI using ncurses. The trouble is that whenever my program gets seg-fault, my terminal is left in mess. I can not see what I am typing. Its a pain since I am

Answer 1

The command

reset

also worked for me on Ubuntu, probably overkill though. What worked best was setting an alias like:

alias 'clean'='stty sane;clear;'

in my .bash_aliases as I found myself needing to do this alot in debugging.