xterm fonts get corrupted while typing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Compiz |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
compiz (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xterm (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xterm
Since I upgrade to maverick from lucid I have seen extremely annoying font corruption while typing which makes unpossible to read what I'm currently writing. It looks like some extra lines are drawn on top of the glyphs. But if I do SHIFT-PageUp and SHIFT-PageDown to refresh the screen, the corruption is gone and the text looks perfect again.
I had to switch using gnome-terminal because of this bug. But I really would prefer using xterm.
This problem doesn't seem to be computer nor settings specific. I have seen the problem with my two different maverick laptops, Samsung X120 and Dell E5410. Also I have seen it with pristine user settings. And both with default and finnish locale.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xterm 261-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
DRM.card0.
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1366x768
edid-base64: AP/////
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
Date: Wed Sep 22 09:37:18 2010
MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. X120/X170
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_US.utf8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fi_FI.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xterm
dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: 04CX.M005.
dmi.board.name: X120/X170
dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: X120/X170
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.35-21-generic
Changed in xterm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This occurs on my system as well, and I'll just note that anything at all that causes the xterm window to redraw removes the extra crud.