terminal window resizes when moving around window in awesome window manager

[Carli]

Reproduce:
 - start "awesome" (window manager)
 - open gnome-terminal
 - hold down "windows"-key
 - drag the terminal window with left mouse button

What I expect:
 - Window should move around and size should stay the same

What I actually see:
 - Window becomes smaller and smaller

Workaround
 - resize the window before you drag it around (Win+RMB-Drag)
 - resize the window to a size that is odd to the height of a character
 - when there is a bit space in the bottom of the window (clientheight is not a multiple of the height of one line), moving will work correctly

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 12 16:12:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110827)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Try if the workaround for bug 787465 fixes it for you (sudo apt-get purge appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3, re-login).

Might be caused by the same menu proxy.

[Carli (s3734770)]

This "workaround" does not fix anything.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

I have the same issue.
gnome-terminal + awesome and I don't have appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 on my system

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

Reported upstream here:
https://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=1165

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[b0wter (evil-klabautermann)]

I am subject to the same bug. The first time I move gnome-terminal it will resize.

On a side note: this also happens on my Arch Linux installation where I use Terminator. I found a workaround to though:
In the options disable the "window geometry hints" in the preferences.
Maybe there is a similar option for gnome-terminal...

[Daniele Varrazzo (daniele-varrazzo)]

More complete upstream report for this bug is here:

https://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=1022&project=1&pagenum=8

There is no activity since Friday, 14 March 2014; however they seem to blame gnome-terminal, because for the violation of the rule 4.2.4: "Clients must not respond to being resized by attempting to resize themselves to a better size".

[Max Kueng (maxkueng)]

Can confirm on Ubuntu, Arch and Manjaro. Happens with both gnome-terminal and terminator. It's been happening for quite some time (~ 2 years). I'm running awesome inside gnome-session.

[Zachary Neely (zrussellneely)]

Can confirm still happening on Ubuntu 15.04 with Awesome WM 3.4.15-1 and gnome-terminal 3.14.2-0.