terminal should not resize in steps, causes problems with "window snap"

[Gerhard Burger]

the snapping to the right or left of for instance a terminal window is not accurate, it still leaves some space. Maximizing using snap works fine. This problem also occurs when using the shortcuts CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD. I've added an attachment to show the problem. I don't know if other programs are also affected

[Rodrick Yu (rodrickyu)]

I haven't tested every application, but this occurs for me with Terminal, Banshee, Appearance Preferences, and the Ubuntu Software Centre. Although the offset is different for Terminal in comparison to the rest. I've attached what the Ubuntu Software Centre looks like snapped to the right. On left snap, it's offset to the left by the same amount such that a part of the window is obscured.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

In Oneiric I can't reproduce it with Banshee as far as gnome-terminal is concerned its not compiz fault, gnome-terminal resizes in steps and not like any other window.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Snapping to specific window sizes is completely ordinary for terminal applications, and the feature is widely supported at the window manager level. (See X11's ICCCM, 4.1.2.3. WM_NORMAL_HINTS Property: the width_inc and height_inc properties).

It is not sane to remove widely supported functionality from applications we ship, particularly by patching them individually, particularly when we have control over a perfectly good window manager where we can solve the problem cleanly.

[Gerhard Burger (burger.ga)]

I think this also affects gvim (in the vim-gnome) package, but I don't now how to add it to the 'affects projects' list.