gnome-terminal background remains faintly transparent when "solid color" background selected

[Gabriel Bauman]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

This is very subtle. To see this bug, set your desktop background to black. Open a Nautilus window (or any window with a white background). Don't maximize the white window.

Now, open gnome-terminal and set the background mode to "Solid Color". Drag the terminal over the edge of the white window. You will be able to faintly see the white window through the gnome terminal window.

I had desktop effects enabled when I noticed this. I've reproduced it on multiple machines running Lucid.

This problem causes gnome-terminal windows to lag badly when dragging them around on slower machines using non-accelerated compositing (such as the Metacity compositor).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 16 14:47:24 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Don't confirm your own bugs.

When "Solid" is selected, it is also inheriting settings from the theme. The Ambiance and Radiance theme specify some transparency, which is why you are seeing that. To have no transparency with these themes, you can adjust the slider to fully opaque in the preferences

[Gabriel Bauman (gabrielbauman)]

You've set this bug to Invalid in gnome-terminal. Fair enough, but clearly the Ambiance and Radiance themes are breaking expected behaviour. Retargeting this issue would have been a better choice.

As to bug status - I confirm my own bugs when I reproduce them on several machines. If that's a problem, I suppose I could simply dump unconfirmed reports into Launchpad and forget about them, then find them years later when someone says "There've been many changes in Ubuntu since you reported this bug! Is it still an issue in Ubuntu 19.04?" That would be really productive.

[Lesmana Zimmer (lesmana)]

i don't think that this bug is invalid. the option says solid color but it does not give solid color. that is a bug. the fix is either to make the option really do solid color, or to relabel to option to say "use transparency setting from system theme".

anyway, i marked this bug duplicate of #549552 where they already discussed this.