Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73381
cursor keeps blinking in unfocused windows
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:18 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: - blinking cursor in non active windows (try looking at 5 blinking cursors) - no more scrolling with shift-page updown - no more auto scrolling on selecting more then a screen full of text when hoovering near window border - unreadable fonts, unless selecting huge fonts - no more hidden scrollbar option but it did fix a nasty bug with superlong lines and weird char sets displaying completely wrong (overlapping on the same line) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use gnome-terminal with the things I said above. Additional info: I guess this is because this gnome-terminal is a completely different package from the original gnome-terminal. We're getting into a xterm versues rxvt war again all over :( new features good: removing old features bad. If I could trade in tabs for the old functionality, I would.
> blinking cursor in non active windows (try looking at 5 blinking cursors) just a bug. > no more scrolling with shift-page updown works for me? in what context are you trying it? do you have Shift+pageup bound to some other key in edit->keybindings? > no more auto scrolling on selecting more then a screen full of text when > hoovering near window border fixed with newer vte package. > unreadable fonts, unless selecting huge fonts works for me. you may have an older version of vte or some of the font packages. LucidaTypewriter is a good font to use. > no more hidden scrollbar option yes there is. It's on the Scrolling tab. (for future reports, please try to file one issue per bug - otherwise we can't assign each task to different people/components, or close issues in different ways. for example the cursor blink issue goes to gnome-terminal, the font issue goes to the font packages, and the rest on vte probably - different people would address each of those.)
The "cursor keeps blinking" bug is present in gnome-terminal-2.0.1-5. A reproduction recipe seems to be: 1. focus on a gnome-terminal 2. press and hold alt-tab; *do not release* 3. click a window with the mouse outside the alt-tab switcher The new window then gets the focus, but the original gnome-terminal still has a blinking cursor.
This turned out to be a GTK bug
It's been fixed in CVS, will make itelf into a release eventually.
This is 99% fixed in GTK+-2.2.0, but I've seen it happen to me once since I did the last bit of fixing a month or so ago, so it apparently isn't 100% fixed...
*** Bug 74948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Upstream bug for this is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109246