Bug#616392: Bug#604680: Reproducible with all vte terminals?

[Liam O'Toole]

On Thu, 10 Mar, 2011 at 19:37:24 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:48:13PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar, 2011 at 14:30:58 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > > Thanks.  I'm reassigning to libvte9, since it obviously isn't specific
> > > to gnome-terminal.
> > 
> > It's not even specific to libvte9. See message #23 in the report log for
> > bug #604680.
> 
> If you can find a place that you think it's better assigned, please do.
> I can't merge bugs that aren't on the same package, and libvte9 is
> arguably better than gnome-terminal.
> 
> I think I've seen gaps in the text in iceweasel in another bug instead,
> and I'm not sure that they're the same bug; what you're describing
> sounds like 612464.  For example, I used to see those gaps, but don't
> anymore.  They were more noticable in iceweasel, but weren't limited to
> it.  Of course, they could have the same underlying cause; I dunno.

Yes, #612464 does look similar. However, that bug was reported in
February of this year, whereas the problem I am experiencing goes back
to November of last year --- around the time that #604680 was reported.
That coincidence led me to attribute the font corruption seen in
gnome-terminal and iceweasel to the same root cause.

Interestingly, the corruption is only seen in gnome-terminal and
iceweasel "content", and never in the "chrome" of those, or any other,
applications. Does that observation help to narrow it down at all?