[Mageia-dev] Gnome-terminal under KDE+kwin

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 28/07/11 12:37 did gyre and gimble:
> Hmmm,
> 
> This is weird... It's maybe due to some new gnome thing, but as I can't
> log in to gnome at present, I can't confirm. But if I start
> gnome-terminal under KDE (konsole seriously sucks - it's impossible to
> use screen with it for example as it doesn't update it's titles quickly
> enough to see how many screen windows you have), then the window is
> automatically resized... to about 3 lines high (same width). If I expand
> it again and open a new tab within the window, the window is again
> resized to ~3 lines high but it's also shrunk width wise too!!!
> 
> Does anyone else see this? Is it a KDE compositing/window management
> thing or is gnome-terminal itself doing this strange thing (perhaps to
> fit in with gnome 3 stuff in some other ways?)
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated!

Seems I am not alone:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670173

Col

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