Whole gnome-terminal window flashes whenever the window title changes

[Dave Martin]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Ubuntu lucid
gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu1
Architecture: armel (imx51); probably applies to other arches too?

The effect may be an inappropriately used visual bell, or more probably something else.

An infuriating side-effect is that the whole window flashes black every time I change directory.

Fiddling with escape sequences, the flash happens if either of the following sequence specified a different <title> from the current one:

ESC ] 0 ; <title> BEL
ESC ] 2 ; <title> BEL

Note that the XTerm icon name change sequence (ESC ] 1 ; <title> BEL) doesn't cause the flash even if title is different.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Steve and I also are reproducing this behavior. I did not notice it prior to updating a week or two ago, so it is a recent regression in Lucid.

I'm not able to produce the same effect in xterm.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

From my dpkg.log:

2010-02-22 14:57:30 configure gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu1 2.29.6-0ubuntu1
2010-02-22 14:57:30 status unpacked gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu1
2010-02-22 14:57:30 status half-configured gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu1
2010-02-22 14:57:30 update-alternatives: run with --install /usr/bin/x-terminal\
-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper 40 --slave /usr/s\
hare/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz x-terminal-emulator.1.gz /usr/share/man/\
man1/gnome-terminal.1.gz
2010-02-22 14:57:30 status installed gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu1

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This seems to be a gtk regression. If I LD_PRELOAD Karmic's version of gtk, then this goes away.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The issue starts at 2.19.5-1ubuntu3, so it's probably CSD related

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.19.6-1ubuntu2

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gtk+2.0 (2.19.6-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/062_client_side_decoration.patch:
    - update by Cody Russell to fix some issues
    - "[CSD] Dragging in some apps (xchat-gnome, Evolution, Gwibber) behaves
       strangely." (lp: #528623)
    - "[CSD] No restore states on max win deco button" (lp: #528612)
    - "[CSD] Cannot click and move window from menubar" (lp: #528617)
    - "[CSD] Going fullscreen doesn't turn off decorations" (lp: #529106)
    - "Whole gnome-terminal window flashes whenever the window title changes"
      (lp: #524532)
    - "[CSD] Entire desktop has a window frame " (lp: #529996)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:50:32 +0100

[be4truth (short-unique-name-in-use)]

I am observing this in Lucid after LTS release. Not fixed yet. This is not urgency=low as as the desktop becomes disfunctional for normal users.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

You have a different problem then. The bug here was fixed some time ago