Windows 2 rows shorter than it should be

[Matthew Ames]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I noticed in Maverick when you load up gnome terminal it's not 80x24. Instead it's 80x22. I went into the profile properties and changed it to 80x24 by default, and lo! a new window was 80x22. So I decided to set the default to 80x43, but when I created a new window it was 80x41.
In each case, it seems that a new gnome terminal window is 2 rows shorter than it should be.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-terminal 2.31.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 7 14:48:41 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Doesn't occur for me every time :( so I need more confirmations before I can triage and fix this.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I cannot reproduce this, could somebody send it upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org if you're getting the issue? Thanks.

[Rob (rgarth)]

I can confirm this. Using both standrd gnome, and gnome-shell, my terminal always opens rows -2. I currently have it set to 80x26, as a work-around.

[Rob (rgarth)]

This seems to be a result of installing indicator-applet-appmenu. With this running the terminal is the correct 80x24, but even with it turned off the gnome-terminal open the same sized window. With the menu-bar it becomes 80x22.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I see this in natty.

[Christopher Boyer (wvuboyer)]

I have indicator-applet installed and get this behaviour. Confirming that setting terminal to (desired height) + 2 works.

[Niall Durham (dbc00per)]

I first encountered this problem after upgrading from 10.10 (an upgrade from 10.04) to 11.04. I did not see it in 10.10. I am using the system fixed width font.

To reproduce:

/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --geometry=80x24 --show-menubar

My terminal dimension is actually 80x22. When I hide the menubar, the terminal dimensions match the requested geometry:

/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --geometry=80x24 --hide-menubar

I tested the above commands under my desktop (10.10) and they both yield an 80x24 dimension terminal.

[hede (michael-heide)]

Me2, same problem here. Maverick fine, Natty buggy.
And I can confirm: for me "--hide-menubar" and user-defined size "+2" both work.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I believe this was fixed in Ubuntu 12.04. Marking as a duplicate of the fixed bug.

[Oleg Moiseichuk (berroll)]

Actually this bug wasn't fixed in precise.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1 with GNOME Classic and Compiz.
First opened terminal have the size of 80x24, all subsequent terminal windows are 80x22.
indicator-applet-appmenu isn't installed in my system.
It doesn't seem the duplicate of the bug #915241 - both gtk libraries in my system are newer than mentioned there and the issue is not fixed by them.