Re: Lost characters in gnome-terminal

[Paul Warren <pdw ex-parrot com>]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:27:37PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:48:08PM +0000 or thereabouts, Steve Cox wrote:
> [and then added] 
> > OK,  I've been experimenting and I've got it sorted - 
> > it was running gnome-terminal with sawfish 0.30.2 with
> > the LockSmith theme (!?)
> > Any other WM or sawfish theme sorts it out.
> > Oh well, that Loksmith theme was quite nice.....

[...]

> I know the RH people were looking at it, and I think it came up
> on gnome-devel-list too (long thread about patches, involving Havoc,
> Michael Zucchi and others, last week I think). There was even a 
> suggestion that it was a very hairy X bug, and that slightly 
> changing things that were drawn on the screen (as you, for example, 
> changed your theme) stopped tripping X into doing it. Whether that's
> the case I don't know, but it matches your symptoms, I think? 

Themes that have any part of the frame overlapping the client area (a)
are inherently Wrong, Bad and Evil ;-) and (b) tickle this bug in
gnome-terminal.

Is this the case for the Locksmith theme?

Paul