Bug#1084049: Terminal window has margin resulting in fewer columns of text

[Jeremy Bícha]

Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/issues/128

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 9:09 AM Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> The ptyxis window seems to have a noticeable margin on the left and
> right, making fewer columns of text visible compared to gnome-terminal
> with the same font.

The ptyxis maintainer is particularly concerned about performance. For
instance, screen reader support is currently disabled by default
because of its performance impact (although Debian and Fedora are
overriding that).

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis/-/commit/dce364aa36861
where this has been acknowledged as an issue and a hidden preference
has been added to disable the extra padding. By hidden, I mean it's
only accessible via gsettings instead of the preferences dialog. I
have now set this bug's forwarded link to a related upstream issue
that has been closed.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha