I tried but could not reproduce it without that certain patch.

After I reverted the patch applied in bug 336325 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=62506), the terminal does not resize when switching between tabs.

*** Bug 340127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 342253 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Any action on this?  Shows up for me every time with gt-2.15.0 on Fedora Rawhide.

a) open 3 tabs
b) Alt+2 to switch to tab #2
c) Alt+1 to switch to tab #1, terminal maximizes _horizontally_
d) Alt+2 to switch to tab #2 again
e) Alt+1 to switch to tab #1 again, terminal now maximizes _vertically_

Also maximizes when I press Alt+Shift+T to open a new tab.  Every time.  (The sound you hear is me reverting #336325 in Fedora packages :)

Maybe it would help to investigate which alleged GTK+ bug the dropped
hack was working around...

I really have no clue about size allocations and such...  Somebody with a knowledge of that should debug it.  Nalin or Owen may have some vague memory too...

I was able to reproduce the problem as well. I thought that my patch for bug 95316 might also fix this bug as well, so I applied that patch to CVS and it does fix the resizing. Two birds with one stone :)

I confirm your patch fixes the two bugs for me.   Bug 324426 remains though.  Can you look into that one too?

That was the first one I looked at and made a patch for. So I already submitted a patch...

Seeing this bug very badly in GNOME 2.15 in Mandriva Cooker. I start my terminal window at size 80x24, by the time I've opened a few tabs and shifted about a few times, it's 80x43 and hitting the bottom of the screen. Is this going to be resolved soon? Thanks!

Seeing this bug very badly in GNOME 2.15 in Mandriva Cooker. I start my terminal window at size 80x24, by the time I've opened a few tabs and shifted about a few times, it's 80x43 and hitting the bottom of the screen. Is this going to be resolved soon? Thanks!

One interesting thing I notice is that, on the tabs which cause the growth to happen, the reported size of the window is wrong. Let's say I start the window at size 80x24 and open a few tabs. I switch to one and the window grows by several lines. However, the reported size - when you click and hold on a corner of the window, to resize it - still says 80x24. If I then switch back to an empty tab, which doesn't cause the window to grow further, and look at the reported size, it is correct: 80x34.

Sorry for the duped comment, bugzilla was responding very slowly.

For me it seems that Eric's patch (bug 342968, third comment) fixes all these resize issues, even bug 324426. Thanks Eric, nice work!

note this problem (random resizing on tab switching) is still happening with gnome-terminal 2.15.4

This might be the same issue as filed in bug #348601. Not marking duplicate since I'm not sure. Note that bug #348601 has several comments that might be worthwile to read for someone looking into this issue.

I am still getting bit by this bug in GNOME 2.16.

We're still getting users bitten by it in MDV 2006, GNOME 2.16:

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26385

Er, I meant 2007 :)

Is there a difference between this bug and #348601 ?

Please check bug 342968, the two current (i.e. non-obsolete) patches ("All relevent previous patches against HEAD" and "fix for the recent problem") are believed to fix all the resize issues. We would be happy if you could test them and tell about your experiences in that bugreport; if they are okay, your positive feedback would probably help get them committed to cvs sooner.

I can confirm the latest patch from bug 95316 also fixes this bug.

These bugs are very irritating if you work with multiple tabs, so if there are
no issues with the patch, please could we get it applied as soon as possible.

How can I build gnome-terminal without touching the rest of my Gnome install?
(and without downloading the whole Gnome sources preferably...)

Could this be the same problem?

Open a gnome-terminal.
Open a tab so you have two.
Hit Control+- (the font size will get smaller)
Switch between the tabs and watch the gnome-terminal window increase in size on every switch.

Yes, I think it's caused by similar reasons.

As I wrote a few days ago, the patches in bug 342968 are believed to fix _all_ the resizing problems with gnome-terminal. It definitely fixes this one, too. I'd like to ask you to test them and write about your experiences in that bugreport, since I'd pretty much like those patches to get applied asap.

*** Bug 368349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 374942 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I've been having resize problems with gnome-terminal version 2.16.1 (comes with SUSE 10.2).

Problem:
When creating new tabs and moving between tabs, gnome-terminal becomes bigger. Eventually it blows up larger than the screen size.

FIX - Patching results:
Problem solved with the following patch (must be applied to SVN):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342968 ("one patch to bind them all" at the bottom)

Tip:
For people who don't know how to get the source and apply the patch and build it, you can follow the directions I layed out in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324426.

Mats and everyone else who has had this problem: could you please try to build gnome-terminal HEAD or 2.17.90, with _no_extra_patches_, and vte 0.15.2 (or HEAD), and see if you can reproduce this problems? 

With 2.17.90 (packaged by Mandriva), the bug seems fixed.

Man I get this ALL THE TIME.  It's weird.  SUSE 10.2, gnome terminal 2.16.1.

I start out with a little window with 4 tabs.  Each time I touch a tab, the window gets bigger in a single dimension (either X or Y).  Eventually it fills the entire screen. But that's not all.  Soon it will get BIGGER than the screen, and I have to chase to down the corners to resize it.

Antoine, our (Mandriva's) gnome-terminal package is patched and I believe includes a patch (or more than one) that address this issue. I don't think you can use it as a basis for a reply to Mariano's question.

(In reply to comment #32)
> Antoine, our (Mandriva's) gnome-terminal package is patched and I believe
> includes a patch (or more than one) that address this issue. I don't think you
> can use it as a basis for a reply to Mariano's question.

Ok, sorry then, I didn't know.
(and thanks Mandriva for the packaging :-))

I did experience this bug in GNOME 2.16.  I do not see it using GNOME 2.17.x.  I build vte and gnome-terminal from the latest SVN sources.

Thanks Antoine, Dennis, Adam!

I've just checked what Mandriva packages as gnome-terminal 2.17.90 <ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/gnome-terminal-2.17.90-1mdv2007.1.src.rpm>, and it does not include any patches on this issue (they just change the default colors, add a --geometry option, and mess with the next/prev tab menu items ( ;-) ))

I'll ask fcrozat, who does the packaging.

The .src.rpm doesn't lie, so if you see no patches there, we currently have no patches. So that would confirm that 2.17.90 fixes this issue upstream.

Unfortunately I'm not working on this.  Any takers?

Note:
SUSE patched this bug, and released the update via YAST.  It works good.

Can you fetch and attach the patch?

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211443


-Bryce http://www.obviously.com/

You've already got it :-).

We applied the patch referenced in #8.

Downstream bug is:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211443

Chris, got some time to review this patch and commit if it makes sense?

Heh, that was easy - we've already applied the fix (r2082, bug 95316 :)

Good to finally have closure on this bug...