gnome-terminal starts up at 79×23 instead of 80×24

Bug #1528728 reported by Anders Kaseorg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator
Expired
Medium
vte2.91 (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
vte2.91 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Starting gnome-terminal results in a 79×23 window instead of the standard 80×24, at least in Ubuntu Gnome with the default Adwaita theme on a high-DPI laptop. This makes it irritating to use some applications designed for an 80-column terminal.

According to an upstream bug report (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750559), the problem is caused by the Ubuntu patch debian/patches/0001-Add-the-style-context-provider-with-FALLBACK-priorit.patch, which was reverted upstream (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740123#c6) and in Debian (https://bugs.debian.org/787104) for this reason. A new version of this patch (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740123#c9) fixes the problem for me.

Tags: patch
Revision history for this message
Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :
tags: added: patch
affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) → vte2.91 (Ubuntu)
Changed in vte2.91 (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in vte:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in vte2.91 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vte2.91 - 0.42.1-1ubuntu2

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vte2.91 (0.42.1-1ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0001-Add-the-style-context-provider-with-FALLBACK-priorit.patch:
    Replace with new version that does not cause gnome-terminal to
    miscalculate the terminal size at startup. (LP: #1528728)

 -- Anders Kaseorg <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:30:43 -0800

Changed in vte2.91 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in vte:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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