Bug#908422: Cursor disappears after switching away from and back to gnome-terminal

[Josh Triplett]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.30.0-1
Severity: important

[Severity because this represents a major usability issue in
gnome-terminal.]

Since upgrading to gnome-terminal 3.30, the cursor in the widow
disappears when switching away from the gnome-terminal window and back.
Switching tabs makes it reappear, but nothing else seems to do so.

I've confirmed that this occurs regardless of the value of the
org.gnome.desktop.interface.cursor-blink setting.


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

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (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                           3.30.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.28.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                                         2.27-6
ii  libdconf1                                     0.30.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.58.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.42.4-3
ii  libuuid1                                      2.32.1-0.1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                 0.54.0-1
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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