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[Margarita Manterola <marga@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This problem is reproducible with programs that link against libtinfo
(from ncurses), like gnome-terminal, xterm or gvim, but it is not
reproducible with programs that don't, like konsole.

It's assigned here to compiz, probably because changing some compiz
settings makes it sometimes go away, or because it's been reported that
newer versions of compiz fix this issue. However, I can reproduce it in
cinnamon, and it's been reported to be reproducible in KDE, so it's
likely not really compiz's fault.

My guess is that it is an issue in the interaction of ncurses with an
OpenGL composite window manager (be it compiz, mutter, or whatever KDE
uses).

I can reproduce with nvidia cards, and people have been reproducing it
with radeon cards, so it also looks like it's not a specific xdriver
issue.

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Title:
  text corruption in terminals (xterm, urxvt) and emacs

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