gnome-terminal doesn't resize on `ESC [ 8' or `ESC [ 4' despite vte's resize_window()

[Ralph Corderoy]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.

xterm and other terminals I've tried correctly handle the standard `ESC
[ 8' and `ESC [ 4' escape sequences to alter the size of the terminal
window.

    # Sets terminal to 100x40 characters.
    $ echo -n '@[8;40;100t' | tr @ \\033
    # Sets terminal to 200x200 pixels.
    $ echo -n '@[4;200;200t' | tr @ \\033

gnome-terminal doesn't, which is wrong. This is despite vte's vteapp.c'
resize_window() which tries to handle both escape sequences. I suspect
there's something lacking in gnome-terminal to make use of this.

Not supporting these escape sequences means gnome-terminal, the default
Ubuntu terminal, is unsuitable for some legacy console apps, and it also
means it's not possible to work around bug #217167.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548322

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this was fixed upstream, thanks you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-terminal - 2.25.3-0ubuntu1

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gnome-terminal (2.25.3-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #316186):
    - Now uses DBus for single instance/factory setup
    - Bugs fixed (LP: #212761, LP: #298426, LP: #258775,
      LP: #279046, LP: #290777, LP: #194065).
  * debian/control{.in}:
    - Bumped build-dependency on libvte-dev to 1:0.19.1.
    - Dropped build-dependency on libgnomeui-dev.
    - Added build-dependency on libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.6).
    - Dropped build-dependency on libxft-dev, as the xft VTE
      backend has gone.
  * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
    - New version update.
  * Dropped 05_restore_tab_switching_shortcuts.patch:
    - Merged upstream.
  * debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
    - New version update.
  * debian/copyright:
    - Updated authors.
  * debian/gnome-terminal-data.install:
    - Don't try to install /usr/lib/bonobo, as it no longer exists.

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:42:27 +0000