Window size in geometry option is ignored

[August Karlstrom]

When I run

$ /usr/bin/gedit --geometry=600x800+100+100

(with no previous instance of Gedit running) the window is positioned accordingly but its size is not 600x800 but instead the last size of the window is retained.

Expected behaviour:

The size of the window should be 600x800.

System information:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10

$ apt-cache policy gedit
gedit:
  Installed: 3.8.3-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.8.3-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[sde (sde)]

same lack of sizing but positioning works on Ubuntu 14.04.1 gedit 13.10.4

(Although gedit does open with different profiles for user and root, so it can have different sizes that way.)