Terminal Flashes When Switching Workspaces

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/6/21 Joseph Spitz <josephgrey at gmail.com>:
>> I installed xfce as my desktop on a system that I just upgraded to lucid
>> lynx ubuntu.  I have encountered an annoying problem.
>>
>> When I switch to a workspace containing a terminal, the terminal window will
>> flash white as it is drawn to the screen.  I usually run terminals full
>> screen, so in that case, the whole screen flashes white when I switch
>> workspaces.
>>
>> This also happens with gnome-terminal, and also when I switch the window
>> manager to metacity. It doesn't happen when I use compiz, becuase it seems
>> like compiz double-buffers the workspace switch.
>
> When you use xfwm4, open xfwm4-tweaks-settings and activate the compositor.

That's hardly a workaround for a but most likely either in Terminal or in VTE.

Better fix the problem in the first place :)

Cheers,
Olivier,