Gnome Terminal artifacts

Indigo 23 indigo23 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 00:34:52 UTC 2007


On 6/2/07, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 18:11:46 -0400
> > From: "Indigo 23" <indigo23 at gmail.com>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> >
> > After upgrading ports and subsequently upgrading to Gnome 2.18.2 from
> > 2.18.1, gnome-terminal seems to have a problem where it just litters
> > the window with various artifacts, I'm not sure if this is a
> > gnome-terminal problem or is something related to vte.  This occurs
> > whether I am using transparency or a background color (i.e. black).
> > Has anyone else experienced this?
> >
> > See screenshot here:
> > http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1596/gt3pw6.jpg
>
>
> This is almost certainly a problem with the latest vte release and I
> suspect it is happening with Linux, as well.
>
> has anyone looked at bugzilla for VTE to see if a bug report has already
> been made?
>
> I don't think it is xorg or driver related and it only seems to happen in
> vte based terminal windows and it happens on every system I have, ATi,
> nVidia, or even Matrox.
>
> There are two recently opened bugs (441918 and 442688) which I describe
> pretty much what I have been seeing, but 441918 claims to be from
> 0.16.3.
>
> I see Joe just checked in fixes about an hour ago, so this is probably
> taken care of already.
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I upgraded both vte to vte-0.16.4_1 (after supping my ports) and
reinstalled gnome-terminal again (just in case) and the artifact
problem still exists.  Anyone else still experiencing it after
updating vte?


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