GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169207
Black background in new tabs
Last modified: 2005-03-07 16:04:52 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
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 ***
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.