The problem I am experiencing now is the following: the background of the cursor on terminal is opaque, i.e., the letter behind is not showed. This happens when cursor and text have the same color. Please, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650723 I am using Fedora 14 and $ rpm -q Terminal Terminal-0.4.5-2.fc14.x86_64 $ Thanks in advance, Paul
I see the same behavior on Xubuntu Maverick with xfce4-terminal 0.4.5. Downstream bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/673489
A temporary workaround that works for me is to edit ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc and set ColorCursor to an empty value: ColorCursor= I just tried that after reading http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?887762-Bug+621298+-+Cursor+invisible+(plain+black)+in+(xfce)+Terminal+%26+terminator I do not know if it can be related or not.
Thanks, David! That workaround ought to get me by until the code is fixed.
There is another workaround: Changing the color of the cursor (e.g., use orange instead of black). Paul
I've just registered for bugzilla to report this same bug. Nice to see I'm actually not the only one that was bothered with this cursor behaviour. IMHO, this bug is the only thing that stops Terminal from being perfect. :P But, I can also confirm that David's interesting solution solves it completely for me. Too bad I haven't looked here first (and made A LOT of typos in the meantime :)). David, thanks a lot, really!
What would you expect when setting the same color for both text and cursor? However, the current version offers another solution (apart from setting different colors for text and cursor): you can set cursor shape to I-Beam or Underline - neither of them hides the characters.