Terminal turns black on leave

[puzzle12]

When I move my cursor away from the window and click on my web browser, my Terminator window becomes all black.

Let's say I need to analyse the data displayed on the terminal while doing something else on the web browser, right?

Well, I am not able to do that, because when I am anywhere else than on Terminator. It becomes black.

If you look closely at the screenshot, I am loosing the red bar where my name is supposed to be displayed and my name computers name at the next line.

I am on Ubuntu 17.04.

Regards,
P

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

That's a new one! I'll need some more info. Which version of Terminator? Which desktop environment? Which theme? Which version of gtk? Also attach a sanitised copy of your ~/.config/terminator/config file, and if you can run with -d and attach that output. (** Must run from a different application with no other instance of Terminator running, or be sure to use the -u flag to disable the DBus interface.)

The grey tri-box, nearby vertical lines, and scrollbar to the right suggest that something wacky is going on, but it's unusual. I could see /either/ the titlebar widgetry /or/ the terminal widget having colour issues, but for them both to have issues is strange.

[puzzle12 (puzzle12)]

Terminator --version : 1.90
Desktop Environment: ubuntu 17.04 / Zesty
Theme: I believe it's the original theme. I have not touched the theme.

Copy of my ~/.config/terminator/config file:
```
[global_config]
  focus = system
  inactive_color_offset = 0.0
  scroll_tabbar = True
  title_inactive_bg_color = "#000000"
[keybindings]
  full_screen = <Ctrl><Shift>F11
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      parent = window0
      type = Terminal
    [[[window0]]]
      parent = ""
      type = Window
[plugins]
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    cursor_color = "#aaaaaa"
    font = Fixed 10
    foreground_color = "#FFFFFF"
```

[puzzle12 (puzzle12)]

As for the gtk, here is what I found:

ii libgtk-3-0:amd64 3.22.11-0ubuntu3 amd64 GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii libgtk-3-bin 3.22.11-0ubuntu3 amd64 programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii libgtk-3-common 3.22.11-0ubuntu3 all common files for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2499-1 amd64 Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library
ii libgtk2.0-0:amd64 2.24.31-1ubuntu1 amd64 GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii libgtk2.0-bin 2.24.31-1ubuntu1 amd64 programs for the GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii libgtk2.0-common 2.24.31-1ubuntu1 all common files for the GTK+ graphical user interface library

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Well I can immediately see the problem.

  inactive_color_offset = 0.0

This line is setting the "Unfocused terminal font brightness" to 0% (i.e. black). Move the slider in the Preferences, Global tab to a positive value. I tend to use 100% because I don't like the feature myself. By default it is 80%.

  title_inactive_bg_color = "#000000"

This is setting the "Terminal Titlebar", "Inactive", "Background" swatch to black. Click it and change it to something appropriate. By default it is #c0bebf, which is essentially light grey.

When you confirm this fixes your issue I'll mark this bug as Invalid.

[puzzle12 (puzzle12)]

This fixed it. thank you! You can mark this bug as invalid.