We have all dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly of
gnome-terminal/vte. Don't get me wrong, it has been my terminal of
choice as long as I have run redhat/fedora. The speed output has
always been an issue for me, but it wasn't until recently that the
tabbed redraw problem became apparent to me. I always switch my
terminal to a black background with grey fonts, so it wasn't until I
started rolling my customized fedora core 2 desktop out to my
coworkers that the multi-tab black background bug was ever a factor.
The speed issue was addresed in the patch attached to this bugzilla,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132770 , which I
have found fantastic. Without the mad skills of this excellent
programmer I addressed the lesser of the two evils, the tabbed black
background bug. My debugging led to a less elegant, but harmless and
effective solution with a patch attached to this bug,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100420 .
Oh yes... me likes this a lot.
In case anybody cares, current rawhide vte enhanced with the above two
patches built for FC2 can be found here: