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Bug 169207 - Black background in new tabs
Black background in new tabs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125364
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.7.x
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-04 16:50 UTC by adrian
Modified: 2005-03-07 16:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8



Description adrian 2005-03-04 16:50:26 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When I open a new tab in an existing terminal window, the background is
sometimes in black color. My configuration for the terminal colors is:

* personalized
* text color: black (#000000).
* background color: light gray (#F0F0F0).

So my new tabs should be always in gray background color, not black.

If I minimice and restore the window (or type the "clear" command), then the
correct background color (gray) is restored.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a new terminal window (gnome_menu > Aplications > System_tools >
Terminal) (or ctrl+shift+n in an existing terminal window).
2. Minimize the window, maximize the window, open a new tab (terminal_menu >
File > Open_tab > Default) (or ctrl+shift+t)
3. Probably, the background color of the new tab is black. If it isn't, just
repeat the "2." step several times (normally, the bug appears after 3-4
repetitions).


Actual results:
After following that steps, some new tabs will have shown a black background color.

Expected results:
The personalized gray color should have be used, instead of the black color.

Does this happen every time?
This happens frecuently, specially after some time of use and after working with
other windows/aplications.

Other information:
My system is FedoraCore3, with standard packets and updates (yum) installed. The
rpm packet name for the terminal application is gnome-terminal-2.7.3-1
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2005-03-04 16:53:01 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

This is actually a bug in vte. Upgrade to vte 0.11.12 for this fix and many many
many others.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125364 ***
Comment 2 adrian 2005-03-07 16:04:52 UTC
The bug is still in FedoraCore3. And the standard update ("yum update" command)
doesn't fix it.

I've reported the bug to redhat's bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/process_bug.cgi#c19

If you have FedoraCore3, the quick fix is:

  rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
  yum --enablerepo=development update vte

That uses the "development" repository and installs vte-0.11.11-15, which seems
to fix the bug.