I can confirm somewhat similiar behaviour with my gnome terminal. It tends to corrupt when I change from another virtual desktop to another.
** Attachment added: "Corrupted GNOME Terminal" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6854997/corrupted_terminal.png ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed -- Screen corruption. https://launchpad.net/bugs/88504 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs