Created attachment 398144 [details] screenshot showing white regions that were not updated Description of problem: When a pop-up window covers a gnome-terminal window having text, the text may not be updated when the pop-up is closed. Screenshot attached. NB: the screenshot dialog itself obliterated a bit more itself. Switching to another workspace and back results in the window being completely white. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.29.6-3.fc13.x86_64 A fresh F13 installation on a hard drive partition. Updated. How reproducible: Reproduced several times. Steps to Reproduce: Here is what I did: Open two terminals, and tile them as in the screenshot. In the top window: $ su $ tail -f /var/log/messages Scroll the window to the top (I believe a longish messages file helps). Select the bottom window. Insert an audio CD in the optical drive and manually close the tray. Wait for the "You have just inserted ..." dialog to appear. (it partly covers the top window, and is partly hidden by the bottom window -- a bug?) In the bottom window type: "eject". Actual results: After the CD ejects, the dialog disappears. There is a white region in the top window where the dialog had covered it. Clicking the scroller in the top window refreshes the text. Expected results: Top window is updated. Additional info:
Here is a slight variant of the procedure. $ su -c 'cat /var/log/messages' # generate a lot of lines $ while true; do sleep 1; date; echo 123456789 ; done # generate new lines Scroll to the top. The new text appearing at the end is not visible and the window does not scroll. NB: gnome-terminal has its default settings. In particular, scroll on output is disabled.
(In reply to comment #1) > NB: gnome-terminal has its default settings. Correction: I increased the font size to 14.
Doesn't look like a gnome-terminal issue to me. If you look at you screenshot, the metacity frame also fails to redraw.
Even simpler procedure: Open a gnome-terminal window in the middle of the desktop (no need to resize). $ su -c 'cat /var/log/messages' # generate a lot of lines $ while true; do sleep 1; date; echo 123456789 ; done # generate new lines Scroll to the top. Repeatedly switch at another workspace and back. Eventually the window is completely white. Refresh by clicking on the scroller or up arrow. Opening the trash so that it overlaps the gnome-terminal window and then closing it also results in obliterated text. Repeatedly selecting System:Preferences and closing eventually obliterates the region where the menu was. Matthias: The frame looks complete when I do the above. The screenshot app. may have introduced some artifacts.
Reproduced on F12: gnome-terminal-2.28.2-1.fc12.x86_64
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