Selecting tab in gnome-terminal sometimes detaches it

[Marc D.]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Sometimes when I have multiple tabs opened in gnome-terminal and I select another tab by clicking the tab, the tab gets detached so it becomes a separate window. I the .xsession-errors it displays the following message:

(gnome-terminal:6820): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_set_default_size: assertion `width >= -1' failed

dpkg -l|grep gnome-terminal
ii gnome-terminal 2.21.90-0ubuntu1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.21.90-0ubuntu1 Data files for the GNOME terminal emulator

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, That's not reproducible here, Can you reproduce the same with another new user created on your system?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

[Marc D. (marc.d)]

Now it happened again. Haven't seen it for 2 months or so. Haven't been able to reproduce it.

Only this was logged in .xsession-errors:

(gnome-terminal:10081): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_set_default_size: assertion `height >= -1' failed

dpkg -l|grep gnome-terminal
ii gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 Data files for the GNOME terminal emulator

[zjt (jesserthompson)]

I'm seeing this too. I can't seem to reproduce it on demand, but sometimes the tab will detach. I don't select "Detach Tab" from the menu, and I do not have a keyboard shortcut defined for the action.

I'll add another comment if I can narrow down what action causes this to happen.

[aero142 (martinkl11)]

I see this several times a day, but I use the gnome terminal with 10 or so tabs on a daily basis. I also am seeing the assert message in the .xsession-errors log.

[jeconais (jeconais)]

Same here - it's pretty irritating when you're jumping from tab to tab. I've checked that the "detach tab" keyboard shortcut is disabled - which it is.

(gnome-terminal:8976): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_set_default_size: assertion `width >= -1' failed

Any hints on how to debug this further would be appreciated.

[bricky (der-buckley)]

I'd just like to confirm this bug. I've been seeing it every day since I upgraded to hardy.

[Dieter P (dieter-plaetinck)]

I also have this. when trying to go to a tab with ctrl+pageup/down the tabs often detach for no reason.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

May someone of you forward this upstream then? I don't get the bug and there's no instructions on how to do it, for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

[aero142 (martinkl11)]

I created a bug for this in the GNOME list as bug #540170.

[aero142 (martinkl11)]

Posting the direct link.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540170

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

great thanks a lot.

[juge (juergen-t-geiger)]

Is there a solution to fix this bug?
I am experiencing this bug several times per day, it is very annoying.

[Konrad Klimaszewski (graag)]

It looks that upstream has a fix:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529908#c52

Could it be packaged for Jaunty?

[Andrew (andrew-rw-robinson)]

What is the status on getting this fixed in Jaunty? Any chance of that? Is this already fixed in Karmic, or is it only fixed in the upstream code at the moment?

[ziii (junk4)]

Problem is still there in Jaunty. Drives me batty:

RMD :: mismatch remembered
RMD :: mismatch remembered
RMD :: mismatch remembered

(gnome-terminal:4625): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_set_default_size: assertion `width >= -1' failed

Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".

Linux blah 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:49:34 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is fixed in karmic, but I nominated it for jaunty. The importance of this bug is low, but the patch ([1]) is only a few lines.

[1]: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gtk+/patch/?id=bc27497020de7287c74a012b8f6a49c9f30c35b8

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

You may also comment on bug #385188 and request 2.16.3 instead of 2.16.2 to be packaged for jaunty, which also includes the patch for this bug.