GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 88991
gnome-terminal should remember size
Last modified: 2006-06-16 02:15:55 UTC
Package: gnome-terminal Severity: normal Version: gnome-terminal-2.0.0.0.200207241646-0.snap.ximian.1 Synopsis: gnome-terminal should remember size Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal Bugzilla-Component: general Description: I believe that metacity leaves it up to the program to remember the size of its windows. This way when the program starts up again, it is the same size as you left it. gnome-terminal always shows up the same size, no matter how I resize the window and exit. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-07-24 17:55 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, hp@redhat.com.
I wonder if it should remember size, or have a configurable default size. Problem with remembering is that it's very unclear which of the many open terminals you have will be the size that gets remembered. gnome-terminal 1.4 had this problem with every prefs setting - the last terminal you set the color for determined the color for all future terminals. So should the last terminal window you resized determine the size? Making it worse, sometimes there will be spurious 'resize' events sent to the app, so sometimes some random terminal would end up determining the new default size. We probably need some comprehensive UI guidelines on how window sizes/positions get recorded, especially for apps with multiple equivalent toplevels.
I've attached a patch in bug 155147 that saves the size when the window is closed. This behavior seems consistent with what most other apps remembering window sizes do. Close as dupe?
Yes, closing as duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155147 ***
*** Bug 345054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***