Bug#908434: gnome-terminal: Text cursor disappears when focus lost in Wayland

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign -1 libgtk-3-0 3.24.0-1
Control: forcemerge 908120 -1

On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 at 22:29:34 +0200, Claudio Sacerdoti Coen wrote:
> when gnome-terminal is started in a Wayland session, when the terminal
> looses focus the blinking cursor disappears and it remains invisible
> forever. The only way to make it re-appear is to switch to another tab
> and back.

This is #908120, a GTK+ regression. For now please downgrade libgtk-3-0
(and the other packages that are in lockstep with it) to version 3.22.x
from testing.

> The bug applies to lxterminal as well.

This is a heavy hint that it is a bug in either a library or the desktop
environment, not in gnome-terminal.

    smcv