GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 302411
Window automatically resizes when opening tabs in a MANUALLY rezised window
Last modified: 2006-05-08 10:20:27 UTC
Window should remain with the same size, to avoid it hiding its bottom behind the desktop bottom toolbar. This is due to the creation of the tabs at the top of the terminal subwindows when one has first MANUALLY resized the gnome-terminal window to occupy the full available desktop area. Opening a new terminal (when you only had one before) creates tabs that "pushes" the window further down. This is not a great problem, but when your command line get hidden behind the desktop bottom tool bar after a CTRL+SHIFT+T one nead to resize it to see what you type at the bottom of the shell window. We would just need to do something like "substracting" the tabs height to the effective terminal subwindow height to get the whole window remain with the same height it had before. Other information: When the windows is maximized using the top right corner button or the ALT+F10 keyshortcut. This little problem do not occur and window do not expand under the toolbar. So I can imagine there is no big difficulty to extend the behaviour to the case where window has been resized manually. Anyway we can continue using this latter technic to avoid this problem !
That is what I suggested in bug 116147 comment 2. Not sure if this should be handled separately from bug 116147...
To add to this (bug 302411) and the referenced (bug 116147), there is a further aspect of this behavior. If I have my window maximized with multiple tabs, and then close all but one tab, the window shrinks, it de-maximizes. I want it maximized.
Todd: What is your window manager? Metacity (the default) shouldn't do this (I hope).
Olav, you're right. Metacity doesn't do this. But the window manager I'm using is... kwin.
*** Bug 340474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162754 ***