Public bug reported:

I'm running my ncursesw application, displaying a black background. When
the screen or a region scrolls up by one line, empty areas of the screen
in the newly visible line show the default white background of gnome-
terminal.

If I remove the bce capability from the Terminfo for that terminal type, the 
problem goes away. This workaround involves:
"infocmp xterm-256color > xt.ti" to get the Terminfo data in text format.
Editing xt.ti and removing "bce, " on the 3rd line
"tic xt.ti" to compile this text to Terminfo again. Without sudo that ends up 
in ~/.terminfo, overriding the system's entry, and with sudo it would overwrite 
the system's Terminfo entry for that terminal type.

Another workaround would be to use a different terminal type without
bce, like TERM=screen, but removing bce is better because that leaves
other capabilities intact.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.20.2-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-45.48-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-45-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Mar 31 13:49:01 2017
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-13 (169 days ago)

** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug yakkety

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Title:
  Background color erase (bce) is broken

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