Comment 10 for bug 1297051

> in the program that I built from source as per your instructions, this feature seems to have disappeared.

This program is a test application for testing the actual terminal emulation only. If you wish to see gnome-terminal getting this feature (beware, it's a bit hairy, don't break your system, make a backup, blahblahblah, standard disclaimer, and if anything goes wrong and gnome-terminal doesn't start up, just open an xterm to fix things)...

You can either:

- Upgrade to Trusty (with Saucy the story is more complicated: there's another patch you'd have to apply), download vte-0.34.9 (the exact vte version that's shipped by Ubuntu Trusty), manually figure out how to apply the patch (it doesn't apply automatically, requires C coding knowledge), run ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/libvte-2.90-9; make; sudo make install; and then quit all instances of gnome-terminal and restart it

Or (this is the one I'd recommend, it'll give you a much newer gnome-terminal):

- Take vte-0.37.2, run configure with the same flags as above, make, sudo make install (note: your old vte and vte-0.37 will co-exist on your system and your gnome-terminal will still use the old version), and then download gnome-terminal-3.13.2, ./configure --enable-distro-packaging --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-terminal; make; sudo make install; quit all gnome-terminal instances. In case anything goes wrong, re-install the gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal-data Ubuntu packages.

Or (the lazy approach):

- Wait for Ubuntu V.V. (15.04) that will hopefully ship this feature.