geometry preferences not applied

[Charles Profitt]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal version 2.30.2 is not applying size settings set by using gconf-editor. It only launches in 80x24 size.

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

this behavior also happened in Fedora 13 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581097

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

I just tested a fresh install of 10.04 with version 2.29.6 of gnome-terminal and this was not an issue.

[Marcin Wisnicki (mwisnicki)]

Disabled here: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?h=gnome-2-30&id=500c2dfced7e161a02eca5d7a26f4690b3443bec

To workaround: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607875

[Marcin Wisnicki (mwisnicki)]

Fix: backport from master http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=0f0fafbe950e5c57b3345524602a226b597a319f

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

Marcin:

Will this be fixed in Maverick?

[Marcin Wisnicki (mwisnicki)]

I don't know, I'm neither in Ubuntu nor Gnome team. Just pointing to details since this bug also bite me.

[Marcin Wisnicki (mwisnicki)]

Works in Maverick.

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

There is an additional item in gconf-editor that must be used to get the custom size:

apps | gnome-terminal | profiles | Default

use_custom_default_size

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

Will test to see if this is resolved for LTS 10.04

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

This issue is not resolved in 10.04 LTS

[Charles Profitt (cprofitt)]

Due to this being a minor bug that does not affect the use of Terminal there will not be a backport to 10.04

Please see this link for more information on why this will not be backported to 10.04
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates