gnome-terminal doesn't handle keyboard resizing well

[Michael Norrish]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Using Ubuntu 9.04, Gnome-Terminal reporting itself at 2.26.0, and metacity (i.e., no compiz)

Reproduce:
1. Open a gnome-terminal
2. Use window-manager keybinding to initiate a resize (alt-f8 on my setup it seems)
3. Hit right-arrow key and hold down
4. window will grow to the right. Eventually it fails to grow any further, and bounces backwards and forward at around that point (column numbers jitter around 190-210, very quickly).

This happens while resizing from the left too.

Alternatively, initiate a keyboard resize, hit an arrow key a few times, and then move the mouse a little: the terminal window gets a terrible case of the shakes. This does not happen with Firefox, Emacs or Rhythmbox, though none of them look particularly graceful as they resize.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

not here that works fine with jaunty as well, could you try the same with a new user on your system?

[Michael Norrish (michael-norrish)]

I created a new user on my machine, and tried keyboard resizing in the default environment. This worked fine, but then, it was all being done with "appearance/visual effects" set to "normal", not "none". In "normal" visual effects (some level of compiz, I guess), the window resize is done with a shadow; only when you finish the operation by hitting return does the real window resize.

In the buggy behaviour situation, the window itself is being dynamically resized, and I guess something is failing to keep up with the constant stream of size change requests. I will check that with my new user I can turn appearance/visual effects to "none" and get the same buggy behaviour.

[Michael Norrish (michael-norrish)]

I can't reproduce the behaviour on the testuser at all. I also find that I can only get the bad behaviour if I have the menu bar of the terminal turned off. I also notice that the font on the testuser's terminal is different from the one I'm getting, though we're both using the "Use system default fixed font" option. I've attached screenshots of the testuser's and my original terminal windows side by side. Why should the fonts be different? (The michaeln account was created under Ubuntu 8.10.)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

let just focus on the resizing issue, per report you only need to describe one issue, if you're facing more then please open another bugs for those. could you send this upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org since you're facing the issue? it's probably due to a broken profile

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report Michael Norrish , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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