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Bug 73381

Summary:	cursor keeps blinking in unfocused windows
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Paul Wouters <paul>
Component:	gtk2	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	aguilr, jorton
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Description Paul Wouters 2002-09-03 21:16:38 UTC

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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.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-03 21:39:16 UTC

> 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.)

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2002-09-18 10:19:31 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-18 15:09:50 UTC

This turned out to be a GTK bug

Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2002-09-18 16:16:22 UTC

It's been fixed in CVS, will make itelf into a release eventually.

Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2003-01-07 17:38:20 UTC

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...

Comment 6 Owen Taylor 2003-01-14 21:41:30 UTC

*** Bug 74948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Owen Taylor 2003-08-28 16:28:54 UTC

Upstream bug for this is:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109246