Gnome-terminal continues to show outline cursor after getting focus

I've also seen this happen (about 1/3 of the time) when gnome-terminal gets focus when I switch between workspaces with Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys.

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

To recover from the outline cursor I press meta key/ubuntu logo (show lens) and back to terminal again but anyways it's a annoying.

Marius: I mainly have this problem changing the workspace as you says and to avoid this you should key up Ctrl-Alt-Arrow before to change the workspace(if you change the workspace and follow with this keys pressed you "lost the focus").

I have found a partial fix changing the cursor blinking behaviour.

With gconf-editor (or your prefered tool) look for /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink_mode and set the value to off.

The cursor doesn't blink but also doesn't show the outline.

Forgot my last comment it doesn't fix nothing, sorry :(

Still present in Precise.

Still a problem in 12.04 LTS.

Does it still occur in 12.04 and or 12.10 ? I can't reproduce it on 12.10.

g-t 3.6.0

True, I haven't seen this in 12.10 or 13.04. It's probably been fixed in gnome-terminal 3.6.

No, I just upgraded to 12.10 a couple of days ago, and I encountered the same issue multiple times. Actually I'am here because I was going to file a bug report against gnome-terminal.

Just installed 12.04 yesterday; I can confirm the bug still exists.

As a workaround, there is another terminal emulator called 'terminator' that is
based on the same virtual terminal widget used by gnome-terminal but doesn't
suffer from this problem. Basically, it's the same as gnome-terminal, but with
many more advanced features.

#12 is incorrect. AFAICS, this is actually a libvte bug and all libvte-based terminals suffer from this issue on my 12.04 machine. I've used gnome-terminal, terminator, sakura, and I think evilvte and lilyterm as well.

FWIW, I haven't yet tried 12.10.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:36:59PM -0000, Matt Hellige wrote:
> #12 is incorrect. AFAICS, this is actually a libvte bug and all libvte-
> based terminals suffer from this issue on my 12.04 machine. I've used
> gnome-terminal, terminator, sakura, and I think evilvte and lilyterm as
> well.
>
> FWIW, I haven't yet tried 12.10.
>

It's correct on 12.10.

This is the version of terminator on my system:

marwan@host:~$ terminator --version
terminator 0.96

Actually, I had installed terminator out of frustration with this bug almost a
month ago, and it hasn't shown any sign for this issue since then. That's why I
stayed with it.

May be you're using a version less than 0.96 where this issued apparently got
fixed.

Using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and gnome-terminal 3.4.1.1, on Gnome Shell 3.4.1-0ubuntu2, bug still exists.

#14: The issue exists in Terminator 0.96 on Ubuntu 12.04. As I said, this is not a bug in terminator, gnome-terminal, etc. It's a bug in libvte. On my 12.04 box, I have libvte-2.90-9 (1:0.32.1-0ubuntu1). Perhaps that has been updated in 12.10, I don't know.

Note, though, that this is an intermittent issue in every terminal based on libvte.

I'm seeing this bug multiple times a day these days. Using gnome-session with xmonad, and sakura as my terminal. Seems to happen sometimes when I switch workspaces, and sometimes when I lock/unlock the screen.

 guys, I met this when I am using awesome window manager, so any solution now?

Upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677329

Looks like the fix is in gtk+2.0, but will need backporting. The upstream commit is:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=d55b815
https://bug677329.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=321036&action=diff&collapsed=&context=patch&format=raw&headers=1

I think these are identical but have not checked.

Should be fixed in Xenial by the libgtk-3-0_3.18.9-1ubuntu1 package.

Is there a chance to have this fgix backported to Trusty? It affects some of our users.

We would also like to see a backport to Trusty. Should we open a new bug to request this?