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Bug 74055 - When you change the terminal colors or background, it does not always repaint
When you change the terminal colors or background, it does not always repaint
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: libzvt
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: jacob berkman
Unknown User
: 72113 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-09 12:24 UTC by Avirupa Chakrabarty
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Avirupa Chakrabarty 2002-03-09 12:24:31 UTC 
Reproducibility: Always
Procedure:
1. Start up the gnome terminal. Select 'Edit: Profiles...' 
option .The 'Manage terminal profiles'dialog box comes up.
2. Go to the 'Colors' tab and in the 'Built-in schemes' list choose some 
option different from the current optin. For example if the current option 
is 'Green on black' select 'Black on white'. Close the dialog window. The 
terminal widow switches the back ground color to white but the command 
prompt initially appears to be partially green followed by black letters.
Only on pressing enter the chosen combination comes fully.
3. Repeat step 2 and choose some other combilation of colors. The problem 
persists.
Sometimes for the White on Black combination a blank screen with black 
background comes up with a cursor only. 'Enter' has to be pressed to get 
the actual effect and the command prompt to appear.


This testing has been done on the recent build of Gnome 2.0 done on 
09/03/2002. Version of Gnome terminal is 1.91
Comment 1 Avirupa Chakrabarty 2002-03-09 12:30:21 UTC 
This problem also occurs when terminal switches between profiles 
having different background and text colour settings.
Comment 2 Avirupa Chakrabarty 2002-03-09 15:28:42 UTC 
I aplogize for a mistake in detailing the procedure to reproduce the 
bug. 
The 'Edit: Current profile...' option should be chosen from the main 
menu instead of 'Edit: Profiles...' option.
The dialog box that comes up when the 'Edit: Current profile...' 
option is selected is the 'Editing profile' dialog box instead 
of 'Manage Terminal Profiles' dialog box.
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-09 17:07:36 UTC 
libzvt's fault. libzvt/update.c needs a lot of rethinking to simply
use the GDK damage region.
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-18 14:44:15 UTC 
*** Bug 72113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-03-27 19:20:22 UTC 
Eck. Part of me wants to call this high but it's very borderline.
Comment 6 jacob berkman 2002-03-27 19:26:39 UTC 
a simple fix would be just to repaint the screen when colors are changed.
Comment 7 Michael Meeks 2002-05-14 16:57:03 UTC 
re-painting doesn't work - we did a load of that; the foreground
colour needs marking changed ;-) fixed now.
Comment 8 Avirupa Chakrabarty 2002-08-13 11:47:19 UTC 
The problem is fixed in Linux. But in the solaris machines the problem 
still persists but in a different way. The background colour of the 
terminal can never be set to anything other than white. The foregroung 
colour however is getting changed immediately. Hence, I am not closing 
the bug.
Comment 9 Anand 2002-09-13 16:11:53 UTC 
Verified; working fine on both Linux and Solaris platforms. Closing 
bug report. Thanks.