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gnome-terminal package

Loosing cursor blinking when switching viewport either on Unity or Openbox

Bug #1096810 reported by Spyou
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This bug affects 2 people
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

When I switch viewport (virtual desktop) and I've got a focussed or unfocussed gnome-terminal open, it (most of the times but not always) looses the blinking cursor.

When I've on the shell, then it's lost, when I'm on Vim I need to move and exit insert mode to see the cursor again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 7 09:53:14 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Spyou (nicolas-alpi) wrote :
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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote :

Possibly dupe of Bug #838381
Cursor-blink-time and -timeout can be adjusted with dconf-editor: org.gnome.desktop.interface

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Spyou (nicolas-alpi) wrote :

Hum, ok, I've set the blink-timeout at 0.
Seems to do the job for the moment. Will let you know if I still can reproduce the problem.

Thanks.

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Spyou (nicolas-alpi) wrote :

Unfortunately that didn't solve the problem in the end. Still can reproduce.

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Lothar Fausthenze (fausthenze) wrote :

I am also affected. I don't use several viewports but I use Compiz's keybinding for "Show desktop". Once, using this shortcut, the desktop was shown and brought back the terminal's cursors stops blinking and can't be revived.

Changing the above mentioned dconf settings doesn't help, neither cursor-blink-time nor cursor-blink-timeout.

System:
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (precise)

Relevant packages:
compiz 1:0.9.7.12-0ubuntu1
gnome-session-fallback 3.2.1-0ubuntu8
gnome-terminal 3.4.1.1-0ubuntu1
lightdm 1.2.3-0ubuntu2.1
linux-image-generic-lts-quantal 3.5.0.32.39
nvidia-current 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.2
xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6.1~precise3
xserver-xorg-lts-quantal 1:7.7+1ubuntu4~precise1

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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