GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 540170
Switching between tabs sometime detaches it.
Last modified: 2008-06-28 21:14:21 UTC
When I have multiple tabs open and am frequently switching between them, one of the tabs will detach. I cannot reproduce this on demand yet, but I work with 10 or so tabs on a daily basis and it happens at least once a day, usually in spurts. This is moving upstream from Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/188879 $ dpkg -l| grep gnome-terminal ii gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application ii gnome-terminal-data 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 Data files for the GNOME terminal emulator $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04"
Do you switch tabs with PageUp/Down, or with the mouse? If it's with the mouse, this is a dup of bug 529908.
(In reply to comment #1) > Do you switch tabs with PageUp/Down, or with the mouse? If it's with the mouse, > this is a dup of bug 529908. > I personally do so with the mouse, but there is one report on the original Ubuntu discussion where the user was complaining of seeing this with Pg Up/Down. I can't verify this myself though. However, I did mistakenly not copy over that there is a message in the .xsession-errors log. (gnome-terminal:6820): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_set_default_size: assertion `width >= -1' failed This leads me to believe that this is in fact a separate defect and an actual bug, or that the submitter for bug 592208 is mistaken as to the problem. From my use of this, I have seen cases where my click of the tab seems hold the tab as if I held the mouse and then releases, even though my actual click was very short. However, I have also seen where this sort of latency doesn't appear and yet the tab detaches after I clicked it. Every time I have a tab detach unexpectedly, the error appears in the log. It is a one-one match.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 529908 ***