Comment 8 for bug 298232

I posted an alternate fix to the htop mailing list which doesn't require reverting any code.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=c1ed4c490901022030u35e959b4te3b585d4958270e9%40mail.gmail.com

I tested it on Fedora and upstream sources, but I expect this fix should work on Ubuntu as well.