Gnome-terminal rendering problem

Hi everyone,
I'm new here because I never had a question that the answer wasn't already here.
But today it's a different day.
I have installed Arch in my desktop, everything seemed to work fine until I opened gnome-terminal
and get this:
All other programs are running fine.
This is happening with terminator too.
I have a nvidia with the official and proprietary driver installed.
Need help, please!
Thanks!
And sorry about my poor english, been a long time since I practiced.

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