Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

text in terminal won't resize & there's no word wrap

Bug #342965 reported by Doug Purinton on 2009-03-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #298385: Reflow terminal contents when resizing the window. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When resizing the terminal screen, text does not realign with the border of the screen. In addition to this, there is no word wrap option. I just switched from Windows and I am having a little trouble with this.

P.S. I am using Ubuntu 8.1 i386

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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Doug Purinton (dougefresh902) wrote on 2009-03-14:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (28.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (780 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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rww (rww-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-03-15:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 298385, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail) wrote on 2013-09-10:

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!