Terminal resizes when changing tab

[Gustaf]

Almost as (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324426) reports, the following works for reproducing the one-line-addition bug:
1. Open a new gnome-terminal
2. Press Ctrl-Shift-T
3. Press Ctrl-D
4. Press Ctrl-Shift-T
Now, every time you select the first tab, a new row is added to the terminal.

Sometimes (I don't know how to reproduce it, using gnome-terminal for every-day usage is probably a good try), it goes nuts and starts resizing about 20 columns and 10 rows every time I change to the first or second tab (out of three or more).

Has been like this for a week or two now. Was the same with the previous version of gnome-terminal. I am now using 2.15.2-0ubuntu1.

[frogzoo (frogzoo)]

Can confirm:
1. Open a new gnome-terminal
2. Press Ctrl-Shift-t
3. Press Ctrl-d
4. Press Ctrl-Shift-t
Every time you do this, terminal gets bigger by one line.

[frogzoo (frogzoo)]

reportbug-gnome-terminal

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed upstream.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 gnome-terminal (2.15.3-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     - Fixed Bug "Open/close tab adds row to terminal" (Malone: #53157)
     - Fixed Bug "[patch] Redundant vte_terminal_set_font_full() calls
     - This change, with the respective change in vte-0.13.4, improves g-t's
       startup time around 20%.
   * debian/control.in:
     - bumped vte requirement.

[Gustaf (opera)]

It still adds rows and columns every now and then. Maybe not for the simple example above, but still...

[Gustaf (opera)]

How to make it resize:

1. Open Terminal
2. Resize terminal (make it a bit bigger)
3. Add tab
4. [repeat] Select first tab, select second tab

This is _extremely_ irritating, and it makes gnome-terminal a nightmare to use. I can't understand developers haven't gone mad on this for the last month(s) it's been like this.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ok that's http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338913

[Mika Fischer (zoop)]

I also have this problem in edgy and it's much worse. I didn't even notice the problem in dapper.

But now if I open a terminal, resize it and add two new tabs with CTRL-SHIFT-T, then the second tab will enlarge the window horizontally. Switch back to Tab 1 and the window is further enlarged horizontally and additionally enlarged vertically. This can be repeated until the window is as large as possible (it doesn't exceed the screen).

In this shape gnome-terminal is unusable for me.

Version is: 2.15.4-0ubuntu1

[Mika Fischer (zoop)]

Interestingly the amount of the enlargement depends upon the amount of resizing done beforehand.

Every tab switch adds the amount of rows and columns that the window has more than the default (80x24 for me).

So if you resize to 81x25 every tab switch enlarges the window by one row and one column...

[Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid)]

As a temporary solution I can suggest using xfce4-terminal. It's very similar to gnome-terminal and doesn't have this annoying bug. Of course, that's not a long-term solution...

[Ross Burton (ross)]

I've just upgraded to Edgy and hit this too. I've a feeling I may be install xfce-term so I can get some work done tomorrow...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've just uploaded a package to edgy without the previous change from that cycle:

 gnome-terminal (2.15.4-0ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/04_resized_on_tabs_switch.patch:
     - undo upstream change to fix the window size changing on tabs switching
       (Ubuntu: #53157)

[Mika Fischer (zoop)]

That seems to have fixed it for me. Thanks!

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Closing the bug as fixed then.

[tonyhawz (tonyhawz)]

I can confirm this bug is back again in ubuntu8.04's gnome-terminal 2.22.1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

tonyhawz ; please report a new one instead of opening a more than one year fixed report, thanks.