Hello,
VTE co-developer here. (VTE, a.k.a. libvte is the terminal emulation
widget behind GNOME Terminal and several other terminal emulator
apps.)
Note that this very bug is also filed at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36831 .
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The "background color erase" ("bce") feature of most terminals
On 3/27/24 02:15, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
The problem is that if you're at the bottom of the screen and
autowrapping occurs, the entire new line is added with the currently
active background color, which might not be the terminal's default
background color. If that new line isn't filled with text