gnome-terminal bizarre resizing

[dirtside]

I realize this may not be a Kubuntu issue, but I'm starting here because this started happening only when I upgraded to 12.04.1 (from 10.04.1) a couple of hours ago.

gnome-terminal does the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFGfWe3ixM

When I open a new gnome-terminal window, if I open a second tab, it slowly animates resizing itself as in the video above. It only does this once, even if I open more tabs... unless I resize the window and then close all but one tab, at which point it does the same thing (only this time it shrinks both vertically and horizontally).

gnome-terminal seems to be the only program doing this. I thought maybe there was something in the KDE config that might be causing this, but I looked around for a while and didn't see anything.

[sumski]

Had the same issue, when recently trying out gnome-shell. That test didn't last long, so i haven't looked it up

This isn't a solution to your problem, but i deeply recommend using konsole, at least for me, it is much superior to gnome-terminal (as are IMHO all KDE counterparts of gnome apps, with the exception of palimpsest)

[dirtside]

Had the same issue, when recently trying out gnome-shell. That test didn't last long, so i haven't looked it up

This isn't a solution to your problem, but i deeply recommend using konsole, at least for me, it is much superior to gnome-terminal (as are IMHO all KDE counterparts of gnome apps, with the exception of palimpsest)

I might well do that. I've been using gnome-terminal for several years (for some reason I didn't like konsole when I first tried it), but my various issues with it all seem to be irrelevant now, so I might just switch to konsole for now.

Still... I can't even fathom what the heck might be causing this weird resize. I've seen Gnome apps under KDE do some bizarre things from time to time, but this one has to take the cake.

[NickStone]

You upgraded from 10.04.1? Thats a very old version to upgrade from, did you not upgrade since 10.04.1? The last point upgrade was 10.04.4.
You also asked if KDE was causing problems with Gnome-terminal. Gnome-terminal is a Gnome app and is best run within Gnome not KDE.

Anyway, back to your problem. If you have upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04, you should remember that your changing from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and it could be causing a conflict with Gnome-terminal. If you display all hidden files and directories in your Home directory and search and delete the .gnome2 directory it may solve the issue.

Hope this helps.

[dirtside]

You upgraded from 10.04.1? Thats a very old version to upgrade from, did you not upgrade since 10.04.1? The last point upgrade was 10.04.4.

Dunno, I reinstalled 10.04 back in February and the version I ended up with was 10.04.1.

You also asked if KDE was causing problems with Gnome-terminal. Gnome-terminal is a Gnome app and is best run within Gnome not KDE.

Fair enough, I just don't like konsole very much. (I'm discovering now that konsole has a bug where it won't display bold fonts most of the time, which is a deal-breaker. I'll put up with g-t's resizing issue over that.)

Anyway, back to your problem. If you have upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04, you should remember that your changing from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and it could be causing a conflict with Gnome-terminal. If you display all hidden files and directories in your Home directory and search and delete the .gnome2 directory it may solve the issue.

Tried that, didn't work. (I also made sure to kill gconfd.)

[sumski]

Fair enough, I just don't like konsole very much. (I'm discovering now that konsole has a bug where it won't display bold fonts most of the time, which is a deal-breaker. I'll put up with g-t's resizing issue over that.)

What do you mean by that? Works fine here

[dirtside]

What do you mean by that? Works fine here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...le/+bug/972279

Basically, the "Show intense colors in bold font" checkbox doesn't do anything.

[sumski]

Would this be OK? I'm note sure i follow you.

[dirtside]

Would this be OK? I'm note sure i follow you.

Here's a screenshot. The font I'm using is ProggyCleanTTSZ, which I've been using for years. It shows up fine with bold in gnome-terminal (and everywhere else I use it). Just to be sure it's not a problem with that font, I tried several other fonts in konsole and none of them showed bold text properly.

[sumski]

I just looked that font up, and it seems it contains only regular variant, not bold. Qt is much stricter in this sense than GTK/vte hence regular fonts aren't faked into bold.

There's a bug report about this:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-10596


Edit2:
There is also upstream bug report on gnome's bugzilla (regarding this resizing issue)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649680

[dirtside]

I just looked that font up, and it seems it contains only regular variant, not bold. Qt is much stricter in this sense than GTK/vte hence regular fonts aren't faked into bold.

I know, that's why I tried it with every other available font in the font dialog, and not a single one of them shows bold properly in konsole. So... I suppose it's possible that none of them are capable of showing bold. My kingdom for a bold-capable monospace font that looks half-decent for programming?

[sumski]

Take a look here, maybe you find something to your likening:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Monospaced

[dirtside]

Meh, I'm just using Terminator. It does everything properly.

[dirtside]

Oh, I did figure something out about konsole -- if you switch to a font that does have bold, it won't show bold text until you close and restart it. Dunno if that's part of the same bug, or just a quirk.

[jlittle]

...When I open a new gnome-terminal window, if I open a second tab, it slowly animates resizing itself...

It's been doing that since Gnome 3 came out. The gnome-terminal people say it's kwin's fault, interpreting some standard incorrectly. It happens to me when gnome-terminal starts, and it does it again with little provocation. I get other glitches too. I had to move to konsole.

Regards, John Little