Bug#572814: gnome-terminal: no cursor on saved tabs

[Adam Borowski]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:43:22PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 06 mars 2010 à 21:12 +0100, Adam Borowski a écrit : 
> > If there are any tabs created on startup, any but the initially active one
> > don't have a cursor the first time they are switched to.  Switching to
> > another tab and back restores the cursor for the remainder of session.
> > 
> > Tabs created after gnome-terminal is started don't show this problem.
> 
> I’m afraid I can’t reproduce that.
> 
> How do you switch between tabs to exhibit this bug? Does it happen with
> the keyboard, by clicking, by scrolling wheel?

Only with keyboard, clicking on tabs doesn't exhibit this problem.

However, I just found out that the bug doesn't happen in Metacity, only
Compiz.  And if you switch to Metacity and back, all tabs lose their cursor
until you select them twice, just as if gnome-terminal has just started.

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