Hey,

I have a weird bug using Xfce Terminal. I already reported it to the Xfce bugzilla at http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6331

Basically, using GTK+ 2.18.9, when closing the preferences window, all the “text” properties are reset to an empty string. Reverting to 2.18.6 (using packages from Debian Squeeze) fixes the problem, so it seems like a problem in GTK+.

It looks like a signal is sent (twice) when closing preferences window and the string returned in the handler is empty. The connect call is like:

g_connect(G_OBJECT (screen->preferences), "swapped-signal::notify::word-chars", G_CALLBACK (terminal_screen_update_word_chars), screen, NULL) 

(I stripped all the other connects).

the terminal_screen_update_word_chars() is like:

static void
terminal_screen_update_word_chars (TerminalScreen *screen)
{
  gchar *word_chars;

  terminal_return_if_fail (TERMINAL_IS_SCREEN (screen));
  terminal_return_if_fail (TERMINAL_IS_PREFERENCES (screen->preferences));
  terminal_return_if_fail (VTE_IS_TERMINAL (screen->terminal));

  g_object_get (G_OBJECT (screen->preferences), "word-chars", &word_chars, NULL);
  if (G_LIKELY (word_chars != NULL))
    {
      vte_terminal_set_word_chars (VTE_TERMINAL (screen->terminal), word_chars);
      g_free (word_chars);
    }
}

so at the time of closing the word_chars is an empty string.


If you need more information, please ask.

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis