Unnecessary chrome when showing multiple tabs

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When gnome-terminal shifts from showing a single tab to showing two or more tabs, it introduces unnecessary chrome on the left, bottom and right edges of the window. This is particularly visible when the terminal is maximised. Chrome on the right is masked to some extent by the scrollbar there, but should be eliminated as well.

To reproduce:
 * launch gnome-terminal, showing only a single tab, maximised
 * note the lack of chrome around the edges of the screen
 * ctrl-shift-t to create a new tab

What happens:
 * you see a gray border on the left and bottom of the screen

What should happen:
 * there should be no gray border on the left and bottom of the screen

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

The issue is in gtk+ there is a workaround on the upstream bug report. the workaround is to add it to the following to .gtkrc

style "notebook-borderless" = "default"
{
    xthickness = 0
    ythickness = 0
}
widget "TerminalWindow.*.GtkNotebook" style "notebook-borderless"

[zwn (zwn)]

Is there a similar workaround for gtk-3?

[zwn (zwn)]

Ok, there is :). In file /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/apps/gnome-terminal.css add this:

TerminalWindow .notebook {
    padding: 1px;
}

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

@zwn, that's great, thanks! I tested it and it works. Can we get this
applied to Ubuntu please?

[Varun Vijayaraghavan (varun-kvv)]

Just my 2 cents: 0px padding actually looks better than 1px padding. :)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Looks like this is fixed now in 14.10. Closing.