Bug#503280: gnome-terminal: SIGWINCHes when switching tabs

[Adam Borowski]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: normal


If you have tabs with different font size, every time you switch between
them, all tabs in the current gnome-terminal window will be resized.  The
underlying terminals will receive SIGWINCH and be ioctled to whatever the
foreground tab's size is.

Many programs will lose some of the screen's contents after resizing to
something smaller.  "less" and the like can redraw everything without harm,
but even for those, unnecessary resizes are a waste of effort.


I attached a minimal program in case the problem is not obvious.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.22.3-3      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                      2.7-14        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               2.16.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-3     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.16.14-3   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.4-2     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-16     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.22.1-8   Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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