gnome-terminal changes cursor color after terminal tab switch

[Wim]

Using ANSI escape sequences you can change the cursor color from the command-line, like so:
        echo "ESC]12;rgb:8000/8000/8000^G";
Where 'ESC' and '^G' are the single characters: escape and control-g. After doing this when you switch tab and back again the cursor color will have changed to black.

TEST CASE:
1. Open a gnome terminal
2. Open a second tab (CTRL+SHIFT+T)
3. On the first tab enter the following sequence on the prompt:
 $ echo "ESC]12;rgb:8000/8000/8000^G";
Where:
ESC = CTRL+V CTRL+ESC
ESC = CTRL+V CTRL+G
=> The cursor color will change to grey
4. Switch to the second tab then back to the first tab

Result:
The cursor color changes to black.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 6 15:42:02 2011
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (1 days ago)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. I can confirm this behaviour. setting to triaged/low

[Brandon Martin (bmartin)]

I can also confirm this bug. Minor but a small annoyance.

[Olleg Samoylov (olleg)]

Looked like regression. In Debian stable

$ gnome-terminal --version
GNOME Terminal 2.30.2

all fine

[Dmitry (df2)]

Have this issue in 12.04
Appears in In Gnome3 and Unity desktops, propertiary and nouveau nvidia drivers and not only in gnome-terminal,
but also in lxterminal.

LXTerminal 0.1.11
gnome-terminal 3.4.1.1

[Dmitry (df2)]

Also noticed that now this bug appears not always, but when ssh session is started in one of tabs.

[Volodymyr Volkov (volodymyr-volkov)]

Confirmed in 12.04.
GNOME Terminal 3.4.1.1

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013 and
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

Does anyone still see a problem related to the one that was reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do and in which version of Ubuntu otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

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Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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