no cursor in 0.92

Same problem here. Actually, the foreground of the cursor takes the color its background should take instead

workaround :
- found a black image and put it as background
- put white as foreground and background color

invert black and white if you prefer white bg

What I don't quite understand from the -d output is:

ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: foreground_color found in profile default: #aaaaaaaaaaaa
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: background_color found in profile default: #000000000000
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_color found in profile default: #aaaaaaaaaaaa

This should have set the cursor to be the same colour as the foreground text. Very odd.

By the way, if it can helps, I upgraded to 0.92 when I upgraded to xorg 1.8 so maybe it's related ?
Which version of xorg are you running on, Guillaume ?

(just tested with terminator-0.91, cursor works properly, but background doesn't. upgrade back to 0.92, background works properly but cursor doesn't)

Keruspe: That's a fascinating data point. How would you feel about a bit of bisecting? :D

I use xorg-server 1.7.6, but I think it is related to vte 0.24 or gtk 2.20
I recently upgraded to gnome 2.30

btw, I have the same problem with 0.91 and 0.92
0.14 works

actually, when cursor_color is set in my config file :

keruspe@Lou ~ % terminator -d 2>&1 | grep cursor
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_color found in profile default: #00009671dc28
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_shape found in profile default: underline
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_blink found in profile default: False

but cursor background is black (as my background) and cursor foreground is the color its background should be.
then, if I set cursor_color = without any value in my config file, its background color is the one from the main foreground color and it foreground color is black :

keruspe@Lou ~ % terminator -d 2>&1 | grep cursor
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_color found in profile default:
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_shape found in profile default: block
ConfigBase::get_item: ConfigBase::get_item: cursor_blink found in profile default: False

What I meant for 0.91 is that, because of the background not working properly and being a light-colored one, I could see a black cursor on it. It's not really working properly because it should be in another color, but I can see it.

As a workaround for now I'll keep an empty string as my cursor_color

(hum, the "underline" part was just a test, it usually is "block")
if you want me to test some tricks, just ask it

another work around, comment this in terminal.py
# if self.config['cursor_color'] != '':
# self.vte.set_color_cursor(gtk.gdk.color_parse(
# self.config['cursor_color']))

Keruspe: I'm not really sure what you mean by "cursor foreground" and "cursor background" - the cursor only has one colour.

I'm wondering if the problem here is simply that the default cursor_color config value happens to be the same as your background colour?

cursor foreground color = color of a character when the cursor is on it
cursor background color = cursor color
that is what I meant, sorry.
actually, whatever color I choose for cursor color, except '', the cursor will be black, and what I call the "cursor foreground color" will be the color I chose for the cursor.

Aha, thanks for the extra detail. Unfortunately I still don't know why
this is happening for you, but at least I now understand the symptoms :)

Chris Jones

On 17 Apr 2010, at 09:24, Keruspe <email address hidden> wrote:

> cursor foreground color = color of a character when the cursor is on
> it
> cursor background color = cursor color
> that is what I meant, sorry.
> actually, whatever color I choose for cursor color, except '', the
> cursor will be black, and what I call the "cursor foreground color"
> will be the color I chose for the cursor.
>
> --
> no cursor in 0.92
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559855
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I'm curious if this happens with vte 0.23.x

This bug is related to a change made in vte in v 0.24.1 or 0.25; see Gnome bug #602596 [0]. The change is backported by Gentoo's vte-0.24.0 package (from the gnome overlay), so Gentoo users might be seeing it in that version as well.

The same problem manifests in Xfce's Terminal and is documented in Xfce bug #6423 [1]. I suggested some workarounds there.

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602596
[1] http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6423

Suertreus' comment suggests this is a VTE bug, so I'm speculatively shifting the bug over to that. if people are able to still reproduce this with fixed versions of VTE then we should re-open this and investigate further.

This is a problem for me using terminator 0.95 with vte 0.25.1 on Mac OSX

This bug makes terminator pretty unusable on Mac OSX. Luckily this fix works form me.

another work around, comment this in terminal.py
# if self.config['cursor_color'] != '':
# self.vte.set_color_cursor(gtk.gdk.color_parse(
# self.config['cursor_color']))