Reflow terminal contents when resizing the window

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Currently, if I resize a terminal window with text content that wraps, the text
block size stays. The reason for resizing a terminal window with wrapping
content is 99% of the time because I want to reflow the text, to which the only
solution now is to rerun the last command, possibly with different results (=
useless).

See corresponding gnome bug report for more info.

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Confirmed in Intrepid, gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336238.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

I'm making great progress in implementing this. Please see the upstream bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336238 , feel free to try my patch if you're a hacker kind. In case of any feedback, please comment in that upstream bug, thanks!

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

vte 0.35 implements this feature.

[Jordi Soucheiron Estruch (jordixou-gmail)]

Is there any way for a regular user to start using the new version with the fix?

[Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz)]

Despite the Fix Released status I can confirm that this bug is not fixed in Ubuntu 14.04, most probably because vte 0.35 implements this feature while Ubuntu 14.04 has only 0.34.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

Sorry, I should have added that you need to enable the Gnome-team PPA to have the fix. It is present in this package version:

Package: libvte-2.90-9
Version: 1:0.36.0-1ubuntu1~trusty1

[Manuel Seelaus (seelaman)]

I am still seeing this issue on vivid:

$ dpkg -l libvte-2.90-9
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-======================-================-================-==================================================
ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.3-1ubuntu amd64 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 - runtime fi