connecting an external monitor causes terminals to be resized

[Steve Langasek]

When I connect my external monitor to my laptop, all of my terminal windows shrink by a line.

As near as I can tell, this is because the addition of the second video output (which is my primary when connected) causes the unity panel to be removed briefly from the laptop display, then re-added on the external monitor; and during the brief period when the panel does not exist, the terminal is told to draw its own menubar. (I'm guessing as to the cause here, but I definitely see the menubars appear briefly within the terminal window). This eats up the space available for the terminal itself, which isn't given back when the menubar disappears again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-3.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 7 22:06:57 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (45 days ago)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I no longer see this issue with current precise, maybe due to some of the multimonitor goodness that has landed. Marking as fixed.