Ubuntu Alt+Middle Mouse Button resize shortcut causes Terminator to unexpectedly shrink

[Stephen Zhou]

Hi.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the terminal
2. Move the window to the middle or top of the screen
3. Use the alt-middle mouse button shortcut to resize the window so that the bottom of the terminal is EXACTLY touching the bottom of the screen

The terminal then shrinks by itself. If I do it a couple more times, the terminal stops shrinking and works as expected.

Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I would suspect this is the geometry hints we send to the window manager, avoiding blank space in the window. There is a configuration option to disable the sending of window geometry hints - you might care to set that :)

[Fuujuhi (fuujuhi)]

Same bug happens when using Terminator in Xming:
- Install Xming
- Launch Terminator in Xming
- Maximize Terminator

... Terminator windows gets maximized but then keeps shrinking itself until height gets 0.

[Fuujuhi (fuujuhi)]

... also, for info, the fix is in the duplicate bug report [https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1361252/comments/1]:

"This is almost certainly the Prefs->Global->Window geometry hints feature misbehaving. Try turning it off; it will probably fix the issue." (tx Stephen Boddy)