Problems with vte in F-12 post-alpha? (affects gnome-terminal, tilda)

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 03:40 -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> gnome-terminal is perfectly solid up to the F-12 release, but
> something that happens since then appears to be causing a lot of
> display garbling (followed, but not immediately, with GnoT crashing).
> The same display corruption behavior is exhibited with Tilda too, but
> I've not had numerous crashes there, chiefly because I use it to
> control a screen session, and at the first sign of corruption, cycling
> to a different screen resolves it temporarily.
> 
> I'm going to file a bug report, but could someone else verify this?
> Try running emacs -nw to edit a text file within GNOME Terminal, and
> start scrolling up and down fast.

You didn't mention your vte version. There are known and fixed bugs that
would have that effect in 0.21.x before vte 0.21.4. If chasing bugs ,
please make sure you have at least vte-0.21.4-1.fc12.