Bug#1016640: gnome-terminal: Size resets to 80x24, when another window gets focus (only tested on gnome-shell)

[Krassy Boykinov]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.44.1-1
Severity: important

Gnome-terminal resets its size to default after loosing focus - either by:
(1) mouse or (2) by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + N to open a new instance.

I have not tested other WM's besides gnome-shell

I suspect that it has to do with dependencies, that got updated as of today,
because before the update everything was fine.

APT log (depending packages):
2022-08-04 12:32:12 upgrade libvte-2.91-0:amd64 0.68.0-1+b1 0.69.90-2
2022-08-04 12:32:12 upgrade libvte-2.91-common:amd64 0.68.0-1+b1 0.69.90-2
2022-08-04 12:32:12 upgrade gir1.2-vte-2.91:amd64 0.68.0-1+b1 0.69.90-2
...
2022-08-04 12:32:20 upgrade libx11-data:all 2:1.8.1-1 2:1.8.1-2
2022-08-04 12:32:20 upgrade libx11-6:amd64 2:1.8.1-1 2:1.8.1-2
2022-08-04 12:32:20 upgrade libx11-xcb1:amd64 2:1.8.1-1 2:1.8.1-2


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.14.0-2
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-3
ii gnome-terminal-data 3.44.1-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 42.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.38.0-1
ii libc6 2.33-8
ii libdconf1 0.40.0-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.1.0-7
ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.3-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.34-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.7+ds-1
ii libstdc++6 12.1.0-7
ii libuuid1 2.38-6
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.69.90-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.1-2

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii gvfs 1.50.2-1
ii nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.44.1-1
ii yelp 42.1-2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2572

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 7:33 AM Krassy Boykinov <krassy....@udo.edu> wrote:
> Gnome-terminal resets its size to default after loosing focus - either by:
> (1) mouse or (2) by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + N to open a new instance.

Interesting bug report. Yes, this was triggered by today's vte
updates. I've reported the issue to GNOME.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha

[Andre Heider]

Same here on XFCE with gnome-terminal.

Upstream has fixed it with:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/commit/a07cfcde3e595084ebc72c96c41857bf05c4c668

Can this patch be backported for the debian package, please?

Thanks,
Andre