sorry guys this went to the wrong list. I will move it over to the dev one. I am a bit distracted by the Sox World Series game. ;-) On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:41:10 -0400, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have all dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly of > gnome-terminal/vte. Don't get me wrong, it has been my terminal of > choice as long as I have run redhat/fedora. The speed output has > always been an issue for me, but it wasn't until recently that the > tabbed redraw problem became apparent to me. I always switch my > terminal to a black background with grey fonts, so it wasn't until I > started rolling my customized fedora core 2 desktop out to my > coworkers that the multi-tab black background bug was ever a factor. > > The speed issue was addresed in the patch attached to this bugzilla, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132770 , which I > have found fantastic. Without the mad skills of this excellent > programmer I addressed the lesser of the two evils, the tabbed black > background bug. My debugging led to a less elegant, but harmless and > effective solution with a patch attached to this bug, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100420 . > > Between the two patches I now have a gnome-terminal that just works > how I want it, and how I assume everyone would like it to. These have > been nagging bugs for quite some time. I know getting changes into > vte at the gnome level has been slow, any chance of use addressing the > issues at a distribution level? > > -Jon >