no cursor in 0.92

[Guillaume ZITTA]

I've got no cursor :(

gentoo ~amd64
vte 0.24.0
Python 2.6.5
gnome 2.30

[Marc-Antoine Perennou (keruspe)]

Same problem here. Actually, the foreground of the cursor takes the color its background should take instead

[Guillaume ZITTA (zitta-guillaume)]

workaround :
- found a black image and put it as background
- put white as foreground and background color

invert black and white if you prefer white bg

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

What I don't quite understand from the -d output is:

ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: foreground_color found in profile default: #aaaaaaaaaaaa
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: background_color found in profile default: #000000000000
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_color found in profile default: #aaaaaaaaaaaa

This should have set the cursor to be the same colour as the foreground text. Very odd.

[Marc-Antoine Perennou (keruspe)]

By the way, if it can helps, I upgraded to 0.92 when I upgraded to xorg 1.8 so maybe it's related ?
Which version of xorg are you running on, Guillaume ?

[Marc-Antoine Perennou (keruspe)]

(just tested with terminator-0.91, cursor works properly, but background doesn't. upgrade back to 0.92, background works properly but cursor doesn't)

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Keruspe: That's a fascinating data point. How would you feel about a bit of bisecting? :D

[Guillaume ZITTA (zitta-guillaume)]

I use xorg-server 1.7.6, but I think it is related to vte 0.24 or gtk 2.20
I recently upgraded to gnome 2.30

[Guillaume ZITTA (zitta-guillaume)]

btw, I have the same problem with 0.91 and 0.92
0.14 works

[Marc-Antoine Perennou (keruspe)]

actually, when cursor_color is set in my config file :

keruspe@Lou ~ % terminator -d 2>&1 | grep cursor
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_color found in profile default: #00009671dc28
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_shape found in profile default: underline
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_blink found in profile default: False

but cursor background is black (as my background) and cursor foreground is the color its background should be.
then, if I set cursor_color = without any value in my config file, its background color is the one from the main foreground color and it foreground color is black :

keruspe@Lou ~ % terminator -d 2>&1 | grep cursor
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_color found in profile default:
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_shape found in profile default: block
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_blink found in profile default: False

What I meant for 0.91 is that, because of the background not working properly and being a light-colored one, I could see a black cursor on it. It's not really working properly because it should be in another color, but I can see it.

As a workaround for now I'll keep an empty string as my cursor_color

[Marc-Antoine Perennou (keruspe)]

(hum, the "underline" part was just a test, it usually is "block")
if you want me to test some tricks, just ask it

[Guillaume ZITTA (zitta-guillaume)]

another work around, comment this in terminal.py
# if self.config['cursor_color'] != '':
# self.vte.set_color_cursor(gtk.gdk.color_parse(
# self.config['cursor_color']))

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Keruspe: I'm not really sure what you mean by "cursor foreground" and "cursor background" - the cursor only has one colour.

I'm wondering if the problem here is simply that the default cursor_color config value happens to be the same as your background colour?

[Marc-Antoine Perennou (keruspe)]

cursor foreground color = color of a character when the cursor is on it
cursor background color = cursor color
that is what I meant, sorry.
actually, whatever color I choose for cursor color, except '', the cursor will be black, and what I call the "cursor foreground color" will be the color I chose for the cursor.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Aha, thanks for the extra detail. Unfortunately I still don't know why
this is happening for you, but at least I now understand the symptoms :)

Chris Jones

On 17 Apr 2010, at 09:24, Keruspe <email address hidden> wrote:

> cursor foreground color = color of a character when the cursor is on
> it
> cursor background color = cursor color
> that is what I meant, sorry.
> actually, whatever color I choose for cursor color, except '', the
> cursor will be black, and what I call the "cursor foreground color"
> will be the color I chose for the cursor.
>
> --
> no cursor in 0.92
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559855
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[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I'm curious if this happens with vte 0.23.x

[Suertreus (suertreus)]

This bug is related to a change made in vte in v 0.24.1 or 0.25; see Gnome bug #602596 [0]. The change is backported by Gentoo's vte-0.24.0 package (from the gnome overlay), so Gentoo users might be seeing it in that version as well.

The same problem manifests in Xfce's Terminal and is documented in Xfce bug #6423 [1]. I suggested some workarounds there.

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602596
[1] http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6423

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Suertreus' comment suggests this is a VTE bug, so I'm speculatively shifting the bug over to that. if people are able to still reproduce this with fixed versions of VTE then we should re-open this and investigate further.

[Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark)]

This is a problem for me using terminator 0.95 with vte 0.25.1 on Mac OSX

This bug makes terminator pretty unusable on Mac OSX. Luckily this fix works form me.

another work around, comment this in terminal.py
# if self.config['cursor_color'] != '':
# self.vte.set_color_cursor(gtk.gdk.color_parse(
# self.config['cursor_color']))