xfce4-terminal cursor opaque / not inverting

[DLCBurggraaff]

Binary package hint: xfce4-terminal

Xubuntu 10.10 xfce4-terminal cursor is opaque or rather not inverting the character under it.
With black text and a black cursor on a white background the character under the cursor is not visible. Changing the cursor to light-grey makes that character visible again.
Previous versions inverted the character to white on the black cursor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xfce4-terminal 0.4.5-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 10 13:24:47 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-terminal

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

I can confirm this issue using an up-to-date, as of 2010-11-10, installed version of Natty Narwhal. The screenshots clearly show the issue.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[David Mudrák (david-mudrak)]

I had the same issue in Gentoo. A temporary workaround that works for me is to edit ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc and set ColorCursor to an empty value:

    ColorCursor=

I just tried that after reading http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?887762-Bug+621298+-+Cursor+invisible+(plain+black)+in+(xfce)+Terminal+%26+terminator I do not know if it can be related or not.

[DLCBurggraaff (burdi)]

-ColorCursor=#aaaaaaaaaaaa
+ColorCursor=

Gives a black cursor with the character under it in white - in other words brings back the original behavior.

The commit linked to speaks of "highlight" and "reverse" - which I cannot correlate these to fields in the preferences dialog.

[DLCBurggraaff (burdi)]

After upgrading to 11.04 I still see this symptom. And the workaround still works.

[Jamie Davis (sichemist)]

I know that developers don't like comments in bug reports, but it's been 7 years since this bug was reported and it still is a problem on Xubuntu 16.04.4. Can we get the packager to set the ColorCursor= (comment #7) in the config file? (Config is currently located at ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc). Or, is there no default config packaged and the application writes the initial config? This should be easy.

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9348

This is fixed in Xubuntu 18.04.

[DLCBurggraaff (burdi)]

Confirmed.
:D