After latest dist-upgrade, this is now fixed for me in trusty. gnome-terminal is still 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
I suspect this came with a compiz. per viwing my history.log, when i filed this bug I was probably running compiz-gnome at 0.9.11+14.04.20140305-0ubuntu1 . And i'm now running 0.9.11+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1 . The changelog for that is: compiz (1:0.9.11+14.04.20140310-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low [ Marco Trevisan (TreviƱo) ] * CompWindow: make sure we don't move a window outside its workarea when setting the extents (LP: #1204307) -- Ubuntu daily release <ps-jenk...@lists.canonical.com> Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:30:48 +0000 so I suspect that either: a.) the above package fixed it in fix for bug 1204307. b.) a previous version of the package fixed it and I just hadn't re-loaded since that. (1:0.9.11+14.04.20140303-0ubuntu1 mentions bug 1282304, bug 1282305 and bug 1282304 and bug 1282305). marking fix-released. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290941 Title: gnome-terminal ignores 'Use custom default terminal size' setting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1290941/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs