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Bug 72113 - Editing a profile in the Gnome Terminal is not possible.
Editing a profile in the Gnome Terminal is not possible.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74055
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
1.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Havoc Pennington
Havoc Pennington
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-21 09:09 UTC by Avirupa
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Avirupa 2002-02-21 09:09:49 UTC 
Reproducibility : Always

Procedure:
1. Invoke the Gnome terminal.
2. Select Terminal: Edit Current Profile.
3. The Edit dialog box come up with six tabs. In each of the tab there is
only a 'Close' button so that if any change is made in the properties of
the profile, it cannot be stored. 
4. In the 'Effects' tab select 'Transparent background' and then one has to
select 'Close' as there is no 'OK' or 'Apply' button. The current screen
background does not become transparent.
5. Repeat step2. Go to the 'Effects' tab. The change made in step 4 is not
restored.

Foreground and background colors of the terminal can be set but no other
changes can be made to the set up of the terminal.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-02-21 13:50:03 UTC 
All the changes instant-apply, as with most of GNOME 2 - so you only
need a Close button.

Some of the prefs aren't hooked up though, including the Effects and
Keybindings tabs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71439 ***
Comment 2 Avirupa 2002-02-22 14:25:02 UTC 
I have observed that some of the changes like changing the background 
and foreground colors and also change in scroll bar settings are set 
instantly, but in the 'Effects' tab if we want to make the background 
transparent or want to set any image as the background then that is 
not getting set and the change is not hapenning instantly. The change 
is not getting stored also so that if I click on 'Close' button after 
that and open this dialog again the changes are not getting replected 
in the dialog. Should I file it as a separate bug?
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-02-22 15:29:41 UTC 
No, the problem is just that changing Effects or Keybindings does
nothing whatsoever at the moment; it's not implemented yet.
Bug 71439 tracks this problem.
Comment 4 Avirupa Chakrabarty 2002-03-09 13:40:36 UTC 
The Effects tab options do not work on the latest 1.91 version of the 
terminal also.The options like setting the background of the terminal 
as transparent or seeting some image as the background of the 
terminal are not working. Is not this a major bug?
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-09 14:38:02 UTC 
There's just a bug in libzvt that keeps the terminal from being
redrawn when you set the background. Try changing to transparent, then 
dragging another window over the top of the terminal to cause a redraw.

I think you or someone else just reported this redraw issue for 
changing colors. Anyway, libzvt needs fixing in this respect.
Comment 6 Avirupa 2002-03-18 14:21:26 UTC 
In that case I cannot mark the bug as closed because the problem will 
persist libzvt is fixed. I will reopen it and prefer to keep it that 
way till the problem gets solved.
Comment 7 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-18 14:44:16 UTC 
Already tracked on libzvt.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74055 ***