contradictory geometry description
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
gnome-terminal's man pages describes option --geometry as:
--geometry=GEOMETRY
X geometry specification (see "X" man page), can be specified once per window to be opened.
which is basically size in pixels and a position in the format WIDTHx‐
However, gnome-terminal --help-all describes --geometry as:
--geometry=
in other words, as columns by rows of text.
Currently gnome-terminal in an updated 14.04 works following the latter definition, i.e., --geometry describes columns and rows of text.
Regards.
Extra info:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
P.S.: I believe these 2 bugs are related but they only notice the problem with the man page.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Nov 8 02:36:50 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-19 (537 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I don't see a problem here. Copying from "man X":
The WIDTH and HEIGHT parts of the geometry specification are usually
measured in either pixels or characters, depending on the application.