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[David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>]

Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Let's start with the simplest one: no highlighting, just
> Shift+Page{Up,Down}. How does the bug occur exactly? How can I reproduce
> it? (I'm using these keys all the time and never had a problem, except
> for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160127).

Basically, when using Shift+Page{Up,Down}, the display tends to lack one
keypress behind.  So if you change direction, it appears as if the first
move is in the wrong direction.

It may well be relevant that I am using Cinnamon as my desktop.  Maybe
it is less generous with expose or other events.

It also helps if there is no other action on the screen (no other
window).  My terminal window is always vertically maximized and there
are several terminal tabs in it.  It's not perfectly reproducible, but
doing S-PageUp and S-PageDown several times in a row is rather likely to
trigger it.  Sometimes the cursor blinking causes a refresh, so it's
also more likely with the cursor off-screen.

-- 
David Kastrup

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1460062

Title:
  Scrollback with Shift-PageUp Shift-PageDown does not refresh screen

Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am often using Scrollback in GNOME-Terminal.  The current version
  forgets to refresh the screen timely afterwards.  For one thing, it
  means that one is wildly pressing Shift-PageUp Shift-PageDown too
  often and it is hard to find things.

  For another, when trying to highlight material with the mouse, the
  refresh happens after the highlighting completes so the highlighted
  material is on a different page than the material you _imagined_ to be
  highlighting.

  Very annoying.  Basically, you have to remember to do an extra click
  or keypress or whatever in order to trigger the screen refresh before
  you can do anything serious.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.14.2-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-34.47-generic 3.16.7-ckt8
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-34-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  Date: Fri May 29 14:56:07 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-14 (1322 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011)
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-27 (32 days ago)

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