Do you use tabs in the gnome-terminal? I saw the following bug in vim which looks a tad similar (but not sure):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/129106 Bug #129106 is fixed by the way in recent patch 166 of vim-7.1 (which is not in Ubuntu yet as far as I know) -- Foreground ('fg') fails to resume stopped processes intermittently https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs