Bug 658774

Created attachment 463922 [details]
Proposed patch

Backport of the upstream patch.

There's also Fedora bug 595060 on this issue with some comments & patches.

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Another terminal emulator which is missing cursor on RHEL6 is terminator.

This bug can be worked around by not setting a custom color for the cursor, that's what I'm doing in terminator for RHEL6

I'm seeing this with XFCE Terminal 0.47.  Any ideas how to tell it not to set a custom color?  I don't think I'm doing so.

The proposed patch fixes it for me.

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Cause: there was a bug in the code setting cursor color

Consequence: the terminal (text) cursor was invisible in some applications which used vte

Fix: color setting logic has been reversed

Result: the cursor is rendered properly and is visible

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-Cause: there was a bug in the code setting cursor color
+Previously, setting a cursor color was not working properly in that a terminal (text) cursor was invisible in some applications which used vte. With this update, the bug has been fixed so that the cursor is now rendered properly and is visible as expected.-
-Consequence: the terminal (text) cursor was invisible in some applications which used vte
-
-Fix: color setting logic has been reversed
-
-Result: the cursor is rendered properly and is visible

There is another bug in vte also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667539
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/663364

patch:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-26&id=c5ff71e924d7b3598e332392c4cc4c19e89a7d6f

It can be reproduced on RHEL 6.1

(In reply to comment #19)
> There is another bug in vte also:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667539
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/663364
> 
> patch:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-26&id=c5ff71e924d7b3598e332392c4cc4c19e89a7d6f
> 
> It can be reproduced on RHEL 6.1
OK, please open a separate bugreport for this.

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closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1204.html

Here is the new bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732391