GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341881
Cursor problems with prompts that set window title.
Last modified: 2006-07-29 16:20:38 UTC
Please describe the problem: Using a prompt which sets the window title causes very slow updates, cursor jumpiness. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open gnome-terminal and run bash 3.1.17. 2. export PS1='\[\e]2;\u@\h: \w\a\]$ ' 3. Type some text, or paste some with middle-click. Actual results: After every character, the cursor returns to the beginning of the line, and then back to the correct place, taking a significant fraction of a second. Pasting a line of text can take several seconds. During this time, the CPU is nearly idle. Expected results: I would expect the cursor to move with the text, and pasting to be instantaneous as it always has been. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: This may be a bug in bash; it began occurring when I upgraded from Ubuntu Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper Beta, so lots of packages have changed.
WFM. What is your vte/libvte version?
4.5.0
dpkg -l libvte4 | grep ^ii | awk '{print $3}'
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 346554 ***