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Bug 735079 - Toggling "show scrollbar" setting causes window to shrink
Toggling "show scrollbar" setting causes window to shrink
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: Profiles
3.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
: 773888 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-20 02:17 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2021-06-10 20:50 UTC
See Also:
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Description Michael Catanzaro 2014-08-20 02:17:36 UTC 
Go to Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Scrolling and uncheck Show scrollbar. The window will shrink by one column. Now check it to restore the scrollbar. The window shrinks an additional column. Rinse and repeat until it shrinks down to 34 or 35 columns.
Comment 1 Frank Weis 2015-01-21 13:54:43 UTC 
Version 3.14.1 gnome-terminal shrinks by one line AND one column each time it 
gets OR loses focus (ie when you hop between terminal windows, both shrink). 
This happens only when the window is not taking the entire screen or the left or right half (ie resized with Super-UP, Super-Left or Super-Right).


This happens when you click to switch focus, or if you use alt-tab.
Comment 2 Egmont Koblinger 2015-01-21 14:04:21 UTC 
@Frank: I've tried g-t under quite a few window managers (gnome shell, unity, kde, icewm etc.) and have never experienced this.  Which window manager are you using?  I'm afraid that's the culprit.
Comment 3 Egmont Koblinger 2015-01-21 14:08:23 UTC 
... or, similarly to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765877, this could be a Gtk+ theme that sets different size for the notebook tab bar when it's focused vs. unfocused.  In that case it should be fixed in the theme.
Comment 4 Egmont Koblinger 2015-01-25 11:29:39 UTC 
@Frank: I believe your problem is reported as bug 743395.

Let's keep this bug for the original (valid, but quite low priority) issue.
Comment 5 Egmont Koblinger 2016-11-03 13:54:10 UTC 
*** Bug 773888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 20:50:29 UTC 
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