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.
-- no debconf information
#include <stdio.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <signal.h>
void winsize()
{
struct winsize ws;
if (ioctl(0, TIOCGWINSZ, &ws))
printf("Can't get the win size.\n");
else
printf("%dx%d\n", ws.ws_col, ws.ws_row);
}
int resized=0;
void sigwinch()
{
resized=1;
}
int main()
{
winsize();
signal(SIGWINCH, sigwinch);
while(select(0,0,0,0,0))
if (resized)
winsize(), resized=0;
return 0;
}
