Bug#908120: gnome-terminal: Cursor disappears when changing or moving window

[Jörn Heissler]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.28.2-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

when I start a new gnome-terminal window, it got a text cursor just as usual.
When I resize or move the terminal window or switch to a different
window (terminal or other), the cursor disappears. And it won't come
back.

I tried different options for the cursor (shape, blinking), but doesn't make
any difference.
Typing "reset" in the shell doesn't help. Neither does the menu option
"Reset".

Only workaround so far: When I switch the terminal tab, the cursor comes
back. But only until I switch/move/resize windows again.

No other software besides gnome-terminal appears to be affected.

This started happening after upgrading lots of packages, so I have no
idea which one causes the issue.

Cheers


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

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.10-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.10-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.30.0-1
ii  gnome-terminal-data                           3.28.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.28.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.28.1-1
ii  libc6                                         2.27-6
ii  libdconf1                                     0.30.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.58.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.42.4-2
ii  libuuid1                                      2.32.1-0.1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                 0.52.2-1
ii  libx11-6                                      2:1.6.6-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                               1.36.2-1
pn  nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal  <none>
ii  yelp                               3.30.0-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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