Repeatable rendering bug; black space on scrollback

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

If I display text and scroll backwards in some cases terminator leaves a big blank space instead of the text; see attached images. This doesn't happen with either xterm or xfce-terminal so I think it's terminator that's the culprit.

How to repeat:
1) Open a brand new terminator window
2) sudo journalctl -n 500
3) scroll right to the bottom (just pressing space)
4) press up arrow once

Observed behavour:
After (3) all is ok (see the prescroll.png) but after pressing up arrow
once a lot of the lines disappear (see postscroll.png).

Version: terminator-0.98-4.fc25.noarch under xfce (and seen on fedora 24 version as well)

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

I can reproduce it (with a 80x50-ish tall window) with terminator 0.98, but not with the gtk3 branch. Seems like a bug in vte-0.28 that is fixed in vte-0.38+. Could you please try the gtk3 version (https://code.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/gtk3)?

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dgilbert-h)]

Hi Egmont,
  Yes, that does work in the gtk3 branch.

Dave

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Cool. I'm closing this as invalid.