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Bug 628486 - Terminal called "Terminator" does not show cursor
Summary: Terminal called "Terminator" does not show cursor
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 658774
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: vte
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-30 08:01 UTC by Taunus
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-02-21 15:28:25 UTC
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Description Taunus 2010-08-30 08:01:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
"Terminator" terminal does not show cursor. For some reason it is the same colour as background. Changing the color of the cursor does not help.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.95-1

How reproducible:
Compile it from koji and start it

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start terminator
2. try to find the cursor
3.
  
Actual results:
No cursor visible

Expected results:
Visible cursor

Additional info:
This is not a package in rhel6 I guess (yet). The best thing about this shell is that you can split the terminal windows to whatever setup you like. It is very popular nowdays. Maybe somebody can take a look at it?

It used to work on rhel 6 beta1, with beta2 the cursor is not visible.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2010-08-30 19:07:33 UTC 
This isn't in RHEL, and it doesn't appear to be in EPEL. Closing this, as there's not much we can do. I suggest you contact the Fedora maintainer if they're interested in debugging it in EPEL.
Comment 3 Taunus 2010-12-21 07:15:13 UTC 
Actually you can fix this. The vte package has a bug which makes cursors disappear if the cursor colour is defined, see:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602596

https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/559855
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan 2010-12-21 08:07:33 UTC 
This bug should be filed for component "vte" and not for "distribution".

This is actually the same as/dup of bug 658774 also filed for el6 which contains a patch backported from upstream and there is also Fedora bug 595060.
Comment 5 Taunus 2010-12-29 14:41:06 UTC 
Change bug to vte
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2011-01-07 15:33:09 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 7 Taunus 2011-01-10 11:08:25 UTC 
Support representative, who is that?
Comment 11 Tomáš Bžatek 2011-02-21 15:28:25 UTC 
This is actually a duplicate of bug 658774. The fixes in referenced upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602596 is already included in RHEL 6.0 packages. 

In particular the following commits:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=b58bc5359085d2c9233ac6d6a265645bfa217e82

http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=f412a6f73a7b3a432bb88830b63ee25ea648619d

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 658774 ***
Comment 12 Taunus 2011-03-03 12:02:10 UTC 
I guess it is something else then but the terminator-0.95-1.el6.rf.noarch has color on cursor with vte-0.24.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm on RHEL 6.
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