Bug#418699: gnome-terminal: caret drawn strangely

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 19:39 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

> I have found an upstream bug, describing problems with cursor drawing,
> it doesn't apply exactly to what you describe, but can be related.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424992

Could be, haven't looked closely. If you think it is, feel free to
forward the URL below to that bug.

> It would be great if you could provide screenshots, or even a short
> recording of the problem. It should be easy to do with "byzanz" or
> "istanbul".

istanbul seems to be too slow to capture it, but it worked with byzanz:
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/broken-cursor.ogg

Apparently it depends on the file I'm editing too, i.e. the vte
contents, it didn't happen when I was just editing some dmesg snippet...

johannes
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