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UPDATE:
unfortunately Okular had the same problem... the interesting thing is zooming in out caused the lines to dissappear and reappear

@frabjous
Did you try printing the PDF from evince? I doubt the lines would have printed.

unfortunately i just got a new printer and havent got it setup to work under linux... (the hassles im having of setting up an epson is left for another forum :))... so i am unable to confirm

You might ...

UPDATE:
after exhausting all my research into this problem and finding no answers... i decided that the problem was not with LaTeX... but with the default linux pdf viewer (Evince)... so i installed Adobe Reader and the problem DISSAPEARED! GEESH!
However, there are still artifacts on the corners ...

Problem:
Lines border every row when i use a frame for my custom style
frame.png
What I want:
a pure black background with white text
intendedFrame.png
Code:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}

\lstdefinestyle{terminal}
{
frame=single ...