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Terminal window black when maximized

Bug #150513 reported by Daniel Nyström
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vte (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Note: This might be a duplicate of Bug #112568.

I've just upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy and now when I open my gnome-terminal window, which is done through my keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+X, the window opens perfectly.
But when I maximize the window, both through Alt+F10 and via the Maximize window button, all window content goes black.
I can see the menu and window frame and stuff, but not the command prompt.

To make the terminal visible, I just have to left clock somewhere in the window, but I can't find a way to do it with the keyboard only.

A very disturbing behavior to me who like not to use the mouse more than necessarily.

I'm using "Normal" Visual Effects.

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Daniel Nyström (speakman) wrote :
Daniel Nyström (speakman)
description: updated
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Does it happen without the desktop effects? What videocard and driver do you use?

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Daniel Nyström (speakman) wrote :

No, it does not appear with desktop effects turned off.
Actually, with the latest updates, it's just black for a few seconds, then it's all visible by it self.

But another related problem is when I open up a new Tab with Ctrl+Shift+T (or by menus) nothing seems to happen (except that the cursor stops blinking).
Then I really have to click on the window (anywhere) until the window update it's contents.

My hardware:

04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8245
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at dc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at e800 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at defe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint IRQ 0

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Maxime MARAIS (maxime-marais) wrote :

Hello all,

I also reproduce this problem on my computer with gnome-terminal and Firefox too when Compiz is running.

My video card is : nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1) running with nVidia drivers

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Daniel Nyström (speakman) wrote :

Reopening this since it doesn't seems fixed yet.

Changed in vte:
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Changed in vte:
status: New → Invalid
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