Version: 3.16.2-1 I can still reproduce this with gnome-terminal 3.16.2-1, with the added complication that sometimes the spurious size changes don't actually result in the right updates in the programs running in the terminal. Exact steps to reproduce:
1) Open gnome-terminal. 2) Maximize the gnome-terminal window. 3) Open a program that cares about screen size, such as vim. To make it more obvious what vim thinks the screen size is, you may want "set laststatus=2" to create a status line above the command area; however, you can also just type ':' to leave a prompt on the last line. 4) Open a second tab (Ctrl-Shift-T with the default keybindings). 5) In the second tab, increase the font size by a few steps with Ctrl-+. 6) Switch back to the first tab. Notice that the terminal-oriented application in the first tab thinks the screen has gotten smaller, to the width and height of the second tab. This reproduces 100% of the time for me, but in theory it *might* be a race condition with the sending of multiple SIGWINCHes. Nonetheless, the right fix is still to stop resizing the terminal at all. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731137 upstream. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.24.0-2 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3 ii gnome-terminal-data 3.16.2-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.16.1-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.16.0-2 ii libc6 2.19-20 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.2-2 ii libcairo2 1.14.2-2 ii libdconf1 0.24.0-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.5-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.44.1-1.1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.16.6-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.14.2-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libuuid1 2.27-1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.40.2-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.10.0-2 ii gvfs 1.24.2-1 ii yelp 3.16.1-1 gnome-terminal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
