Yeah, I've switched to using aterm which doesn't seem to have this issue.

Thank you all

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:51, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:37, Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Eyal Erez <oneself@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand, but I'm not using a VM, and why is it manifesting only on
>> gnome-terminal and not all windows?
>
> I noticed this also with lxterm on the integrated Intel graphics card
> of a new Thinkpad with the default drivers. Using the discrete nVidia
> graphics card or xterm fixed the problem.

lxterm is from the same codebase as gnome-terminal, IIRC, and
therefore is likely to share the same bugs.  And several oddities of
this kind are known to exist, apparently triggering a driver bug.



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