[xmonad] gnome-terminal Border Color

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

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 <oneself at gmail.com>:

> 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 <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, I'm running in Ubuntu 10.10, no VM in sight.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, <wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 <oneself at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>  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 at gmail.com* <oneself at gmail.com>*>*
>>
>> There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *Eyal Erez <**oneself at gmail.com* <oneself at gmail.com>*>*
>
> There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.
>