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** Changed in: vte
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  gnome-terminal writes to /tmp on every line of output

Status in Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator:
  Confirmed
Status in vte package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  STR:

  1. Start xterm
  2. Run "python -mpyinotify /tmp"
  3. Start gnome-terminal.
  4. Run some command like ls

  Actual Results:

  Observe a ton of IN_MODIFY lines such as
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vteD7DX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteD7DX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vte1XDX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vte1XDX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vte72DX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vte72DX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vteD7DX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteD7DX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vte1XDX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vte1XDX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vteD7DX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteD7DX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vte1XDX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vte1XDX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vte72DX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vte72DX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vteD7DX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteD7DX2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x2 maskname=IN_MODIFY name=vte1XDX2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vte1XDX2V wd=1 >

  Or, when idle -
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteGFOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteGFOF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteI7NF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteI7NF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteVCOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteVCOF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteGFOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteGFOF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteI7NF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteI7NF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteVCOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteVCOF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteGFOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteGFOF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteI7NF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteI7NF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteVCOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteVCOF2V wd=1 >
  <Event dir=False mask=0x1 maskname=IN_ACCESS name=vteGFOF2V path=/tmp pathname=/tmp/vteGFOF2V wd=1 >

  This looks like vte code storing something. According to this question - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1830432,
  "Sometimes vte creates temporary files which contains a copy of the whole scrollback buffer, [...]".

  Expected results:
  Nothing is being written to this dir at this rate by gnome-terminal.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct  3 09:55:29 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-30 (33 days ago)

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