weird behaviour of gnome-terminal in xfce or LXDE sessions

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:53:54 +0200
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:

> On 06/14/2011 07:48 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> I will open a BZ.

Already filed. This was noted in the run up to f15 release, but never
fixed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670173

Since most Xfce folks use Terminal (Xfce's terminal program) this
doesn't affect them. 

kevin