Note: This is possibly a duplicate of bug #611664, but the situation is a bit different and that bug report was confusing to me (and seemingly overloaded with a feature request) so I decided to file a separate bug. Also, I've never encountered this bug before upgrading to 3.6, while the other bug is ancient.



Here's how to reproduce the issue:

 1) open two terminal windows, leave them at their default size
 2) in one of them, open a new tab, stay in that tab
 3) resize this window, e.g. by making it larger (but smaller is broken too)
 4) with the mouse or alt-tab, focus the *other* window

Now what happens is that the first window resizes back to its original size from before step 3.

To work around it, insert step 3a:

 3a) select the first tab in that window ("the other" if there are only two)

Note that if you happen to have more than two, only selecting the first will be a suitable workaround.

Oh also instead of the second terminal window, any other application works as well.


I didn't have this bug with 3.4.1.1 and there are hardly any source changes between 3.4.1.1 and 3.6.1 in gnome-terminal, so maybe some window size hint handling changed in gnome-shell? Not sure where to assign this bug to instead.