We have all dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly of gnome-terminal/vte. Don't get me wrong, it has been my terminal of choice as long as I have run redhat/fedora. The speed output has always been an issue for me, but it wasn't until recently that the tabbed redraw problem became apparent to me. I always switch my terminal to a black background with grey fonts, so it wasn't until I started rolling my customized fedora core 2 desktop out to my coworkers that the multi-tab black background bug was ever a factor. The speed issue was addresed in the patch attached to this bugzilla, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132770 , which I have found fantastic. Without the mad skills of this excellent programmer I addressed the lesser of the two evils, the tabbed black background bug. My debugging led to a less elegant, but harmless and effective solution with a patch attached to this bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100420 . Between the two patches I now have a gnome-terminal that just works how I want it, and how I assume everyone would like it to. These have been nagging bugs for quite some time. I know getting changes into vte at the gnome level has been slow, any chance of use addressing the issues at a distribution level? -Jon