Description of problem: I'm starting to notice occasionally/randomly wrong characters to be rendered on my gnome-terminal window. It looks like when the window is scrolled then proper characters reappear. I cannot intentionally trigger the bug - but seems to occur from time to time. Recently there were few upgrades in rawhide so it's hard to guess whether the problem is directly in gnome-terminal or in some rendering library. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.29.6-2.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Anything new here ? I'm still seeing random character on my terminal from time to time and it is really confusing sometimes. My actual version is: gnome-terminal-2.29.6-3.fc13.x86_64
Need at least a screenshot or something at least. I'm not a chiromancer (yet) :).
Created attachment 396506 [details] gnome-terminal snapshot with incorrect characters Ok - so here is something for your prophecy :) I cannot really 'enforce' this behavior - so I could only take the picture when I notice some letter is wrong in terminal. The first XExpose event - i.e. refresh/redraw of that area with wrong text fixes the problem. In fact - the problem could be character rendering in Xlib - as I start to assume your gnome-terminal has just one buffer for string rendering - and recently I've noticed 'similar' behavior in my own text editor (fte) - I've though it could be bug in my editor's code (as I've been changing some refresh/expose routines inside the editor) - but in fact it looks quite similar - refresh of text editor's window fixes the problem in the same way as for gnome-terminal. So maybe after all the bug could be moved to Xlib - but I'm not sure about this yet.
Created attachment 396507 [details] gnome-terminal after refresh with correct character Correct letters after moving window over wrong characters to force windows area refresh.
Quite possibly an X driver bug. What driver are you using? Please reassign to the component for the driver.
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