Bug#616392: gnome-terminal: display corruption when rendering text

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libvte9
Version: 1:0.24.3-2
Severity: important

As can be seen in the attached screenshot, I see text misrendered with
what looks like lines or dots over the text.  This occurs less
frequently with kernel 2.6.37 than it does with 2.6.38-rc6, and Ctrl-L
used to help more often (it always used to fix the problem; it only
sometimes does now).  It happens frequently in mutt, but I've seen it in
aptitude as well; it's mostly (although I'm not sure if exclusively) in
programs using ncurses.

This problem occurs in gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, and evilvte.

I do use compiz and normally a transparent background, although mutt
always uses a black background, and disabling the transparency does not
help.  If you need more information, please let me know.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvte9 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.32.0-2       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-13      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-4       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-2.1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.4-1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.28.1-1+b1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.20.1-2       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.28.3-3       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libvte-common             1:0.24.3-2     Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.1-5      X11 client-side library

libvte9 recommends no packages.

libvte9 suggests no packages.

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