Bug#487164: gnome-terminal: windows moved and resized after running powertop for the first time

[graziano]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.22.2-1
Severity: normal


Hello there,

I'm haivng a weird beahviour our of gnome-terminal which I can trigger
reliably with powertop but I think it should be related perahps to the
use of ncurses of something like that. 

I do have quite a few terminal windows open at all time (usually 7) 1 in
the first workspace, 4 (2 on top and 2 on bottom) on the second one and 2
(vertically maximized) in the third. When I run powertop *the first* time
after a reboot or restart, the windows on worskpace 1 and 2 are moved on
the top left corner of the display (and in the case of workspace 2 are
all piled up under each other). The 3rd workspace is a bit more
interesting since one of the windows remains correctly placed while the
other is resized to default and move on the top-left corner like the
others. 

This is happen onlye the first time I run powertop and after a few
seconds of starting it (I guess till the incrimination ncurses call is
made?). After I repositioned the terminals I can re-run powertop at my
hearth content and all is well.

Definetely an odd one me think.

thanks
graziano


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.22.2-1      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.10-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.3-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.16.14-1   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.4-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.4-2     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  rarian-compat [scrollkeepe 0.8.0-1       Rarian is a documentation meta-dat

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.22.1-3   Help browser for GNOME 2

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