Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:35:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-terminal patched resize behavior Message-ID: <1219595731.67353.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1d6d20bc0808240854l53bfe471scc52e28dce233527@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d6d20bc0808240854l53bfe471scc52e28dce233527@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-n02XhgFpRxJj047jEl3O Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:54 +0800, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I've since a while noticed that when I changed the font size of > gnome-terminal, it does not resize window as in Fedora. Recently I dug > a little and found that it was because of a patch in ports: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/gnome-terminal/files/patc= h-src_terminal-screen.c?rev=3D1.3 >=20 > this patch prevents gnome-terminal from resizing when switching tabs. > To me, the patched behavior is more strange than auto-resize. >=20 > Consider the usage: >=20 > open window > ctrl-shift-T to open another tab, > ctrl-shift-s-=3D to zoom-in > alt-1 to switch back to first tab >=20 > The vanilla behavior keeps term size of each tab the same (say 80x24), > resize the window. > Patched version keeps window size, reduce the term size (without > gnome-terminal realizing it. try zooming-in and resize the window to > see how the displayed term size changes). >=20 > This is a decision whether to resize the term or the window when you > have terminal tabs sharing the same application window but each have > different font and term size. I think the original behavior makes more > senses. So I reverted the patch for my personal use. >=20 > Any comments? This patch has been pulled in the upcoming GNOME 2.24 release, but vanilla behavior looks to have been changed to the patched behavior. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-n02XhgFpRxJj047jEl3O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkixjdIACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dcIQCgpHgeXO0CeRA9CIs8L8Oc3EME LqUAni5yI0gLO5sHX6uSmwT9PBDag1yk =uPxN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-n02XhgFpRxJj047jEl3O--
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