Comment 11 for bug 785501

Hi, you're the first person to touch this bug in a verrrrrrry looooooooong time. Which version of Terminator are you using?

Quick explanation: The /tmp/vteXXXXXX files are temporary files created to hold the scrollback history once the size gets a little too big. You will typically see these if you have infinite scrollback turned on. They are created, a lock is obtained, then it is unlinked so no longer appears in the filesystem. They are entirely handled by the libvte component, so nothing can be done within Terminator directly. The vte developers have long since moved on from the crusty old libvte used by Terminator (typically 0.28) to a much newer gtk3 version (currently 0.4x), and do not backport fixes. It would help if you could see if this is still an issue in the gtk3 version of Terminator with a recent version of libvte. ( http://gnometerminator.blogspot.de/2015/09/so-you-want-to-try-terminator-gtk3.html ) If the problem still occurs there, then a bug needs to be raised against libvte ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=vte )