Bug#418699: gnome-terminal: caret drawn strangely

[Sven Arvidsson]

reassign 418699 libvte9 1:0.16.0-2
thanks

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:17 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> When I have the editor "joe" open my caret is supposed to look like a block:
> 
> =====
> =====
> =====
> =====
> =====
> 
> 
> Now, when I press page up/down in exactly the right moment when the blinking
> caret is just about to reappear, it's drawn incomplete for the first
> blinking, after going away and coming back it's fine. Sometimes, it'll be
> drawn like this:
> 
> =====         =====      =====
> =====    or       =  or  =       or various other strange shapes.
>                   =      =
>                 ===      =====
> _____           ===      =====
> 
> 
> 
> This is just somewhat irritating and may point to a deeper bug with locking
> drawing onto the surface, but who knows. It doesn't seem to happen when just
> moving up/down so this seems to indicate that it may be due to the redraw
> delay.
> 
> This is the first time I've seen this bug, so I guess it's new in 2.18. But
> maybe the timing only got different so that it's easier to trigger.

Hi,

This is almost certainly a problem with vte, so I'm reassigning the bug
report. 

I have found an upstream bug, describing problems with cursor drawing,
it doesn't apply exactly to what you describe, but can be related.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424992

It would be great if you could provide screenshots, or even a short
recording of the problem. It should be easy to do with "byzanz" or
"istanbul".

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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