This seems to be a bug when building against gtk3. When building against gtk 3.8.2: - monitor text gets hidden behind menu bar - a bar appears on the bottom, growing as the window is resized. When the contents overflows (a scrollbar appears), this bar is gone.
Building against gtk 2.24.18 / vte 0.28.2 resolves the above issues. ** Attachment added: "full window with gtk3" https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1186935/+attachment/3693744/+files/fhEPOxa.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186935 Title: [1.5] QEMU monitor gets overlapped by GTK menu bar Status in QEMU: New Bug description: The QEMU minitor gets partially hidden by the menu bar which was introduced in QEMU version 1.5.0. Steps to reproduce: 1. Run `qemu-system-x86_64` 2. Press Ctrl + Alt + 2 (or use the menu bar) 3. Observe that the monitor output is partially shown, without the "compat_monitor0 console" and "QEMU 1.5.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information" lines. Attached is a screenshot of `qemu-system-x86_64` and `qemu-system- x86_64 -display sdl`. Version: 1.5.0 Distribution: Arch Linux 64-bit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1186935/+subscriptions