Bug#936065: gnome-terminal does not resize window (ALT-F8) from some keyboard arrow keys

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Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.30.2-2
Severity: minor

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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]  1.12.16-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.16-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.30.1-2
ii  gnome-terminal-data                           3.30.2-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.28.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.30.0-2
ii  libc6                                         2.28-10
ii  libdconf1                                     0.30.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.58.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii  libuuid1                                      2.33.1-0.1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                 0.54.2-2
ii  libx11-6                                      2:1.6.7-1

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                               1.38.1-5
ii  nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal  3.30.2-2
ii  yelp                               3.31.90-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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Gnome-terminal does not resize window (ALT-F8) from some keyboard arrow keys.
The up-arrow and down-arrow keys do nothing.

gnome-terminal: 3.30.2
tested on debian 10 Buster Gnome Desktop

create bug:
start gnome-terminal
center gnome-terminal on Desktop
press ALT-F8
up-arrow key will not increase window size
down-arrow key will not increase window size

left-arrow key will increase window size
right-arrow key will increase window size
all arrow keys will decrease window size

mouse will increase and decrease window size
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Gnome-terminal does not resize window (ALT-F8) from some keyboard arrow keys.
The up-arrow and down-arrow keys do nothing.

gnome-terminal: 3.30.2
tested on debian 10 Buster Gnome Desktop

create bug:
start gnome-terminal
center gnome-terminal on Desktop
press ALT-F8
up-arrow key will not increase window size
down-arrow key will not increase window size

left-arrow key will increase window size
right-arrow key will increase window size
all arrow keys will decrease window size

mouse will increase and decrease window size

other apps like nautilus and xterm work as expected
-------------- next part --------------
Gnome-terminal does not resize window (ALT-F8) from some keyboard arrow keys.
The up-arrow and down-arrow keys do nothing.

gnome-terminal: 3.30.2
tested on debian 10 Buster Gnome Desktop

create bug:
start gnome-terminal
center gnome-terminal on Desktop
press ALT-F8
up-arrow key will not increase window size
down-arrow key will not increase window size

left-arrow key will increase window size
right-arrow key will increase window size
all arrow keys will decrease window size

mouse will increase and decrease window size

other apps like nautilus and xterm work as expected