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gnome-terminal package

gnome-terminal incorrectly calculates csd size with long titles

Bug #1681585 reported by Jamie Strandboge on 2017-04-10

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Terminal	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #769898
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

This is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769898. I see this on 17.04 with gnome3/wayland. For example, if I edit a file using vim deep in a directory and save the file, the size of the terminal changes (as seen with 'stty size'). There are many different scenarios where the terminal size changes and gets smaller and smaller. Using the attached debdiff (uploaded to zesty just now) resolves the issue for me.

Tested patch under gnome3/wayland and it fixes the issue. Tested under Unity7/X and it introduced no regressions.

See original description

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2017-04-10

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
description:	updated

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2017-04-10:

gnome-terminal_3.20.2-1ubuntu8.debdiff Edit (6.0 KiB, text/plain)

description:	updated
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → High

Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2017-04-10

description:

updated

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2017-04-10:

Test case that demonstrates the issue:
$ mkdir -p ~/really/really/really/really/loooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggg/directory/
$ touch ~/really/really/really/really/loooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggg/directory/foo
$ ls
...

the terminal shrinks and goes into a loop and is unusable

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-04-10

Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2017-04-11

tags:

added: patch

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2017-04-11:

I meant to put a cd after the touch. I noticed on my laptop it will only reduce the size of the terminal by one, but in the vm it goes into a loop. On my laptop:

$ mkdir -p ~/really/really/really/really/loooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggg/directory/
$ touch ~/really/really/really/really/loooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggg/directory/foo
$ cd ~/really/really/really/really/loooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggg/directory/
$ stty size
25 85
$ stty size
25 84
$ stty size
25 83
$ ls
foo
$ stty size
25 81
$