Bug#418699: gnome-terminal: caret drawn strangely

[Johannes Berg]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.18.0-1
Severity: minor

When I have the editor "joe" open my caret is supposed to look like a block:

=====
=====
=====
=====
=====


Now, when I press page up/down in exactly the right moment when the blinking
caret is just about to reappear, it's drawn incomplete for the first
blinking, after going away and coming back it's fine. Sometimes, it'll be
drawn like this:

=====         =====      =====
=====    or       =  or  =       or various other strange shapes.
                  =      =
                ===      =====
_____           ===      =====



This is just somewhat irritating and may point to a deeper bug with locking
drawing onto the surface, but who knows. It doesn't seem to happen when just
moving up/down so this seems to indicate that it may be due to the redraw
delay.

This is the first time I've seen this bug, so I guess it's new in 2.18. But
maybe the timing only got different so that it's easier to trigger.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-rc5-g356f78c6-dirty
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.16.3-1   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data         2.18.0-1     Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.19-2     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.18.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.18.0-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.5-0exp6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.18.0.1-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.0-4    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.11-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.18.0-2     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.18.1-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.18.0.1-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.10.11-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.16.1-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.10-3       lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.9-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                     1:0.16.0-2   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.1.1-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.1-3    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-13    A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.18.0-1   Help browser for GNOME 2

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