Comment 8 for bug 1714810

We're talking about multiple bugs here.

The most serious one, the window automatically shrinking should I believe stop when you specify paddings so that left+right = top+bottom. Could you please test/confirm this?

> The window in the screen shot is taken with zero configured padding.

The default padding is 1px on all sides, that tiny thin line that you can see. Don't set it to 0px because you'll face new bugs then :)

The extra amount on the right side in the screenshot is probably part of the scrollbar (even though it doesn't look so). I hate it, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772134#c3 for a workaround.

> It sounds from your description as if the real problem is in "vte" which is used by gnome-terminal?

Exactly. (Ubuntu package name is "libvte-2.91-0" and friends, source package is "vte2.91".)

> Note that, in the worst of cases, when I maximize a window and get a green
> border on the bottom, I will sometimes get a line of text "stuck" there, and
> it's inaccessible by any normal editor commands or cursor movement. I can't
> reproduce this on demand (yet) though.

When you maximize or fullscreen, extra padding might appear on the right and bottom for the remaining area that's smaller than a full cell. That area cannot be used normally. An exception is that if you begin to scroll back with the scrollbar (or touchpad, mouse wheel etc.) then the bottom extra padding also begins to show contents (this is new as of vte-0.44, the version that you have).