What's the version of GNOME Terminal on CentOS that you're referring to, where you don't face these issues?
GNOME Terminal (more precisely, the underlying VTE widget) was improved a lot during the last 4 years, tons of emulation (and other) bugs were fixed. The most relevant one is probably https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732586. I can't reproduce the issues on Ubuntu 18.04 (gnome-terminal 3.28, vte 0.52). I personally recommend to you to upgrade to 18.04 soon (14.04 will EOL in a year anyway). It's pretty unlikely that these emulation fixes will be backported to 14.04. (My guess is that GNOME Terminal in Ubuntu 16.04 is most likely already fixed.) (Disclaimer: I'm a GNOME Terminal / VTE guy, but not an Ubuntu developer, so it's not Ubuntu's recommendation to you to upgrade.) > in Ubuntu Gnome terminal it is rendered as a cursor that is the color of a 50% blend between the background and foreground color, making it the best appearing terminal I've used Thanks; not everyone shares your opinion though, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778122 :) ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #732586 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732586 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #778122 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778122 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770494 Title: Does not display VT-100 control codes correctly/consistently Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm writing a shell script that draws in color to any VT-100 terminal. The terminal in Ubuntu consistently and randomly drops out of graphics mode producing huge glitches. This does not occur in Xterm or Gnome Terminal on CentOS. Appearance: The image from the file below should look like a color filled square, what you see is a "glitch" which looks like the second half of an escape command followed by a lot of "a"'s where the graphical checkerboard character should be rendered (in Ubuntu Gnome terminal it is rendered as a cursor that is the color of a 50% blend between the background and foreground color, making it the best appearing terminal I've used) Reproducibility: It is 100% reproducible with the instructions below. To reproduce: Using the attached screen-capture.txt file: In Gnome-Terminal try "cat screen-capture.txt" over and over to see the error. In Gnome-Terminal try "less -r screen-capture.txt" and scale the terminal window to see variation Comments: I don't know if there is a problem where characters are dropped from stdin, or if the pipe is getting reset, or if the emulator can't keep up with the commands, or if there is a(n inconsisent) limit to the number of command codes that can be sent to the terminal. Or if it is being interrupted, or if it randomly resets... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-147.196-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-147-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 10 15:10:57 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-02 (1255 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1770494/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
