lucid upgrade terminal window too large and can't resize

[tz]

The screensize on my hp netbook is 576 vertical, but I am running standard Ubuntu, not the netbook remix.

I did the upgrade to the current lucid alpha and so far it has gone better than anything since Gutsy, but the terminal window goes off the bottom of the screen and I can't resize it or so anything else to make the current activity (at the bottom of the screen) visible. You are choosing a HUGE font, so simply using something smaller would work, or a resizable text window would be best.

Please don't assume a huge screen for anything, especially for an install where the hardware might not be fully recognized.

Try everything in 800x600 VESA and see if it works right.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

When in a terminal you can go to edit>profile preferences you can change the default size of the terminal to fit your screen.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

The terminal fits on my screen at 640x480 with default settings. How many rows is your terminal set at? the default is 24.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

Okay I did some more messing around and no matter what the resolution i set it at or the default size of the terminal it never goes off the screen, the terminal must think your running a higher resolution than you realy are for some reason.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

Also after reading the title and description it is somewhat ambiguous as to whether you meant just a normal terminal, or the terminal you can open in update-manager to show what it is doing. Could you please clarify?

[tz (thomas-mich)]

It is the terminal window WITHIN update manager. My normal terminal windows use a small monofont and work very well. But there is no way I can find to change the update window's terminal screen - the fonts for the update manager follow the theme, but if I show the terminal window, it is (for me) huge white characters on a black background that would be 24x80, and might work except since there are lots of lines in the upgrade, the terminal window has to be below them so goes off-screen.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

If it's the embedded VteTerminal in update-manager, then that's nothing to do with gnome-terminal

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

In fact, that's not even update-manager which shows that

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

@tz, could you please attach a screenshot. Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 261092, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.