It looks like the terminator in gentoo suffers the same bug as in ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1177506 According to them it is already fixed. Just for the record: In the new 0.97, I set 'Unfocused terminal font brightness' to 1.0, because I didn't want the brightness to change when unfocused. This resulted in the effect shown in the attached image (focused on the left, unfocused on the right). The nearest I can get to satisfaction is making it 0.9, where it only dims a little bit, but keeps the proper colours.
Yepp, I can reproduce this. But the patch doesn't fix it here. Does it for you?
(In reply to Justin Lecher from comment #1) > Yepp, I can reproduce this. But the patch doesn't fix it here. Does it for > you? Didn't try it. Honestly I'm not quiet sure how to do that.
Place that patch http://dev.gentoo.org/~jlec/paste/terminator-0.97-brightness.patch into /etc/portage/patches/x11-terms/terminator and emerge terminator. Check in the log, that the patch gets applied.
(In reply to Justin Lecher from comment #3) > Place that patch > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~jlec/paste/terminator-0.97-brightness.patch > > into > > /etc/portage/patches/x11-terms/terminator > > and emerge terminator. > > Check in the log, that the patch gets applied. Yes the patch fixes it for me, thanks for the explanation :)
+*terminator-0.97-r1 (25 Sep 2013) + + 25 Sep 2013; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> +terminator-0.97-r1.ebuild, + +files/terminator-0.97-brightness.patch: + Backport patch for brightness setting problems, #485750 +
