"GEDIT" & TAB characters results in invisible
text

I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise SErver 10 SP1 under VMware v6.02.  I have 
the VMware tools installed and a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels.  All 
of the latest updates to SUSE Linux are installed.

When I run the GEDIT application to edit a text file, it works fine except 
for one minor problem.  If I hit the TAB key to indent some text, all text 
on that line that follows the TAB character becomes invisible.  If I remove 
the TAB character, the text becomes visible again.  If I open up a file that 
has TAB characters already in it, then all of the text following those TAB 
characters is invisible, too.  Also of note, if I enable text wrapping, any 
wrapped text becomes visible on the next line since there's no TAB character 
preceeding it on the same line on which it is being displayed.

The problem is 100% reproducible regardless of whether or not I have GEDIT's 
auto-highlighting feature enabled for various file types such as .CPP files, 
etc....

I do not have a spare system to install SUSE Linux on to test whether or not 
this is some sort of artifact related to running within a VM.

Has anybody else encountered this problem?


TIA,

Chuck
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:44:40 GMT
Chuck Chopp <chuckchopp@rtfmcsi.com> wrote:

> I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise SErver 10 SP1 under VMware v6.02.
> I have the VMware tools installed and a screen resolution of 1024x768
> pixels.  All of the latest updates to SUSE Linux are installed.
> 
> When I run the GEDIT application to edit a text file, it works fine
> except for one minor problem.  If I hit the TAB key to indent some
> text, all text on that line that follows the TAB character becomes
> invisible.  If I remove the TAB character, the text becomes visible
> again.  If I open up a file that has TAB characters already in it,
> then all of the text following those TAB characters is invisible,
> too.  Also of note, if I enable text wrapping, any wrapped text
> becomes visible on the next line since there's no TAB character
> preceeding it on the same line on which it is being displayed.
> 
> The problem is 100% reproducible regardless of whether or not I have
> GEDIT's auto-highlighting feature enabled for various file types such
> as .CPP files, etc....
> 
> I do not have a spare system to install SUSE Linux on to test whether
> or not this is some sort of artifact related to running within a VM.
> 
> Has anybody else encountered this problem?
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Chuck
Hi
Just had a look on my vm and it's the same. SLES10 SP1 and vmware 5.5

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Chuck Chopp;1466407 Wrote: 
> 
> When I run the GEDIT application to edit a text file, it works fine
> except
> for one minor problem.  If I hit the TAB key to indent some text, all
> text
> on that line that follows the TAB character becomes invisible.  If I
> remove
> the TAB character, the text becomes visible again.  If I open up a file
> that
> has TAB characters already in it, then all of the text following those
> TAB
> characters is invisible, too.  
> 

I have same exact problem on my machine and I am not running VMware. I
am running Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.1 on a Dell Workstation.
Additionally, the problem is not just limited to GEDIT. It happens when
I edit files in Eclipse too. I believe it has something to do with GUI
libraries. I started seeing this after I updated packages on my
computer. I can't really tell what packages caused it because I updated
a whole bunch of them at the same time, but I am sure that is the
problem. My coworker is running same setup but did not update yet and
he does not have the problem.

Among those updated packages were gnome. I'll see if reverting the
update will help. ( I'm not sure it will be possible to revert though
).


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Chuck Chopp wrote:

> Has anybody else encountered this problem?

Yes I have seen it. It is an issue with the latest version of cairo that
went out and it is being worked on by Novell.

I had the same problem after the readline update.  I reverted back to
readline version 5.1-24.13x86_64 from 5.1-24.19x86_64 and tab is
working correctly again.


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