weird behaviour of gnome-terminal in xfce or LXDE sessions

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/14/2011 01:38 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> After choosing xfce or LXDE as my favorite desktop and logging in and
> then starting gnome-terminal, I see a weird effect: gnome-terminal is
> popped up in a normal size, but then the width shrinks automatically and
> slowly to about the half width. How to get rid of this behaviour?
> This happens even width freshly created users.
>
> All comments are welcome.
>

Same thing happens here.  But, quickly...not slowly.  I don't know how
to "fix" it...but sounds like candidate for a bugzilla.