Re: Lost characters in gnome-terminal

[Steve Cox <stevec canaries co uk>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Paul Warren wrote:

> 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
> 

Yup - the window resize drag anchors in the bottom corners stick over into
the frame like mirror mounts.

Steve