gnome-termnial visual glitch: 100% transparent

[themusicgod1]

To reproduce:

0) open gnome-terminal

1) Open a profile *without* transparent background. ie a solid colour background

2) position a firefox window or something with a lot of white beneath the majority of the gnome-terminal

3) hit enter enough times to reach the bottom. This should 'clear' the state of whether it shows transparent background or not

4)

> clear

to clear the terminal and present a prompt at the top

5) notice that the screen is unreadable as gnome-terminal has somehow 100% transparent background. See screenshot.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS"

* Ubuntu 12.04+unity (+/- compiz) did the same thing.

bash:
  Installed: 4.3-7ubuntu1.5
  Candidate: 4.3-7ubuntu1.5
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
Openbox:
  Installed: 3.5.2-6
  Candidate: 3.5.2-6
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:
  Installed: 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver-xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  Candidate: 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1

Other visual glitches exhibit themselves on this computer so this may be a nouveau issue:

see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1537124

makerspace@accounting1:~$ lspci | grep -i 'vga'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev a2)

makerspace@accounting1:~$ uname -a
Linux accounting1 3.13.0-76-generic #120-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 15:58:41 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-76.120-generic 3.13.11-ckt30
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-76-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 22 10:11:02 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130213)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-01-19 (2 days ago)

[themusicgod1 (themusicgod1)]

cannot reproduce on 17.10 artful

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to comment #2 by reporter, will mark "Fix Released" to close.