[xmonad] gnome-terminal Border Color

Eyal Erez oneself at gmail.com
Tue May 31 01:27:22 CEST 2011


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, <wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu> 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 <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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
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