Hi, I've taken two screenshots to try and illustrated my issue better. 1. http://i.imgur.com/R8Dvz.jpg 2. http://i.imgur.com/TgD6P.jpg The desktop contains 4 windows. 3 are gnome-terminal and one is an emacs window. In the first image, emacs is selected, and it has a red border. In the second image, the upper-left term window is selected, and emacs has a gray border. In both images all of the term windows have weird half see-through borders. I'd like my term windows to have the same borders as all the other windows have (e.g. emacs). Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? Thank you On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 21:53, Eyal Erez wrote:

No, I'm running in Ubuntu 10.10, no VM in sight.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, wrote:

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Are you by any chance running xmonad inside a VM? Some VMs have bugs in their video drivers that manifest in X11's borders.

~d

Quoting Eyal Erez :

Hi,

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I seem to be getting a weird effect on gnome-terminal's border color. In all other windows, my border shows as a solid color (red or grey in my case). However, gnome-terminal's border colors seems to be half transparent and my desktop wallpaper is showing through. This makes it really difficult to figure out which window is currently active.

Thank you for your help

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I understand, but I'm not using a VM, and why is it manifesting only on gnome-terminal and not all windows? On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 16:32, wrote:

Probably your graphics drivers are faulty. For example, I believe several VMs ship with drivers that don't do borders correctly.

~d

Quoting Eyal Erez :

Hi,

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I've taken two screenshots to try and illustrated my issue better.

1. http://i.imgur.com/R8Dvz.jpg 2. http://i.imgur.com/TgD6P.jpg

The desktop contains 4 windows. 3 are gnome-terminal and one is an emacs window. In the first image, emacs is selected, and it has a red border. In the second image, the upper-left term window is selected, and emacs has a gray border. In both images all of the term windows have weird half see-through borders. I'd like my term windows to have the same borders as all the other windows have (e.g. emacs).

Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?

Thank you

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 21:53, Eyal Erez wrote:

No, I'm running in Ubuntu 10.10, no VM in sight.

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, wrote:

Are you by any chance running xmonad inside a VM? Some VMs have bugs in

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their video drivers that manifest in X11's borders.

~d

Quoting Eyal Erez :

Hi,

...

I seem to be getting a weird effect on gnome-terminal's border color. In all other windows, my border shows as a solid color (red or grey in my case). However, gnome-terminal's border colors seems to be half transparent and my desktop wallpaper is showing through. This makes it really difficult to figure out which window is currently active.

Thank you for your help

-- There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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-- *Eyal Erez <**oneself@gmail.com* *>*

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

-- *Eyal Erez <**oneself@gmail.com* *>*

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

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-- *Eyal Erez <**oneself@gmail.com* *>* There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 19:37, Conrad Irwin wrote:

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Eyal Erez wrote:

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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.