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ocarinahuff

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Registered: 2009-06-25

Posts: 2

gnome-terminal text corruption

I've tried installing Archlinux several times over the course of a few months.  I always get a text corruption, ie random weird characters or blocks or nothing instead of an actual command I'm typing.  I use a Dell XPS M1530, with NVidia 8600m.  I had the 180.51 nvidia driver installed, with Compiz Fusion and Gnome.  This text corruption only happens with Gnome.  KDE has no problems like this.  I'm curious if anyone found a workaround?  Google turns up nothing about this.

educev

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From: Ecuador

Registered: 2009-06-25

Posts: 8

Re: gnome-terminal text corruption

I have the same problem. Nvidia 185.18.14

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kowalski

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Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 82

Re: gnome-terminal text corruption

Did you ever try --loose-binding and --direct-rendering for compiz? I'm not sure these are the right parameter names but you'll figure out.

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arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: gnome-terminal text corruption

Have you tried with different terminals?

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ocarinahuff

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Registered: 2009-06-25

Posts: 2

Re: gnome-terminal text corruption

Haven't been back to Arch in a while, but if memory serves, xterm and VT did not have that issue.  I could use xterm as a workaround, but it's so ugly, that's why gnome-terminal exists in the first place.  Using one or both of the Compiz options mentioned above causes either window tearing when moving/resizing or causes the Cube rotation to glitch, one or the other.  Odd that this bug doesn't exist in Ubuntu, how did they solve it?

I like the idea of rolling release, and I like the extreme configurability of gnome, but I won't move to arch completely until that nvidia bug has been fixed.  Ubuntu already fixed theirs months ago. 

So Please, someone make me an Arch! 

educev

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From: Ecuador

Registered: 2009-06-25

Posts: 8

Re: gnome-terminal text corruption

Thanks kowalski, problem solved. With fusion-icon I unchecked loose binding and inderect rendering. Sorry my bad english.

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