Bug 707664

I'm seeing this as well

If I open a terminal resize it to a useful size,
 then opening a new tab, (Shift-Ctrl-T),

it shrinks back to a useless postage stamp size :(

Opening a new terminal Shift-Ctrl-N , opens up a window at the correct size which then shrinks.

Richard

This is happening in i686 as well. I also have a problem under kde that if I resize the gnome-terminal the terminal loses focus and I cannot type anything in it until I leave the teminal, let another ap have focus and return. Additionally, if I use the menu to try to reset the teminal when it has lost the ability to accept characters that are typed, the menu cannot be selected or dismissed until the terminal have been obscured by another ap like firefox. When the terminal is redislayed, it is often totally blank an must be moved for it to refresh. It is somewhat usable then until you want a new tab or something.

I have this same issue
open gnome-terminal, it opens at 1024x750
gnome-terminal shrinks to something more in the range 100x100. 
I see the terminal shrink dynamically... it doesn't go from big to small in the blink of an eye... the termial dynamically resizes many, many times over the span of a second

This happens under both GNOME ( I don't use KDE ) or if I ssh to my Fedora 15 box and just run gnome-terminal over ssh. I can use the --geometry=1024x750 option on gnome-termial to set a size at start up OR I can let the system use the default size... in both cases, the terminal shrinks. 

jack

Is there anything that we can provide to assist with this?  With Konsole not using/respecting --geometry parameters under KDE for the past few years, this is increasingly important under Fedora 15.

This problem has vexed me as well.
I have a fix for it that works on my system. Specifically this is for KDE4 using plasma and for running gnome-terminal which seems to be annoyingly resizing seemingly without reason. 

make a window rule for gnome-terminal and tell it to 'strictly obey geometry' in 'Workarounds', choosing either 'force' or 'force temporarily' 

There is a setting that can be made within a window rule. One needs a rule for a gnome-terminal window. You can get this by choosing 'Special Applications Settings' from the Windows Advanced menu. Once you set up this rule go into it and make sure you have it apply to all gnome-terminal windows. Or, it can be set for subsets of gnome-terminal windows as you desire.
Basically set up a geometry that makes sense for your use. Then select, from the 'advanced' tab 
make a window rule for gnome-terminal and tell it to 'strictly obey geometry' in Workarounds, choosing either 'force' or 'force temporarily' 

After the rule is created you get at the rule from the Configure Window Behavior applet, also available in the tilebar. If you get at it from how you created it, you actually create a new rule. So once you set up the rule when you need to tweak around with it access it through the Configure Window Behavior applet.

This also happens under XFCE4 on Fedora 15 x86_64.

My bugfix for this problem under XFCE4: install/use roxterm.
Now... what to do about systemctl???

Same problem on i686, not surprisingly.
The window rule workaround, however, does NOT work for me...

I'm able to work around the problem by using the black menu button in the top left hand corner of the terminal window, and selecting Advanced > Fullscreen.

This is less than ideal, since there will be circumstances where I don't actually want the terminal to occupy the full screen, but it's a big improvement on having a postage-stamp-sized terminal window.

(In reply to comment #6)
> make a window rule for gnome-terminal and tell it to 'strictly obey geometry'
> in 'Workarounds', choosing either 'force' or 'force temporarily' 

After trying many combinations, Bill's workaround (now I understand kde's method)
is successful:
Setup:
- use mouse to move and resize gnome-terminal to desired pos/size.
- gnome-terminal: title bar menu | advanced | special window settings
- in edit window - specific settings: workarounds tab
- strictly obey geometry = check | dropdown = force
- OK.
    Each time you do this, a new entry gets placed in the Configure Window Behaviour | Window Rules list.

Changing:
- gnome-terminal: title bar menu | Configure Window Behaviour
- in Configure - KDE Control Module: scroll down to Window Rules
- RHS: click Window settings for gnome-terminal | Modify
- Window tab | Window Role = "" (remove the text indicating a specific window)
- OK.

Test:
- close gnome-terminal
- start gnome-terminal (yay!)

The bug is present in Fedora 16, as well.

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I was able to arrest the auto-shrinkage of gnome-terminal by disabling the setting for the following:

KDE 4.6.5
KDE System Setting 1.0
 - Workspace Appearance and Behavior
   - Desktop Effects ( KDE Desktop Effect 4.6.5 )
     - 'All Effects' tab window
       - 'Windows Management' group
         - 'Resize Windows' checkbox  (UNCHECK THIS)
- Press 'Apply' button

Voila... no more nasty auto-shrinkage of gnome-terminal.

Good enough until the next release of gnome-terminal.

egberts solution half works for me.  

The resize window checkbox was not checked, so I checked it, apply, and un-checked it.  Now new windows shrink to minimum height, but maintain their width.

I also David Timms suggestion and it now works fine when I add a new tab.

It's just the new window that is still shrinking on it's own.

I never had this problem until I upgraded to F16 (I skipped F15).

-Dan

One additional observation 
gnome-terminal-2.32.0-1.fc14.x86_64 binary copied from FC14 seems to work just fine in FC16 and KDE

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(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > make a window rule for gnome-terminal and tell it to 'strictly obey geometry'
> > in 'Workarounds', choosing either 'force' or 'force temporarily' 
> 
> After trying many combinations, Bill's workaround (now I understand kde's
> method)
> is successful:
> Setup:
> - use mouse to move and resize gnome-terminal to desired pos/size.
> - gnome-terminal: title bar menu | advanced | special window settings
> - in edit window - specific settings: workarounds tab
> - strictly obey geometry = check | dropdown = force
> - OK.
>     Each time you do this, a new entry gets placed in the Configure Window
> Behaviour | Window Rules list.
> 
> Changing:
> - gnome-terminal: title bar menu | Configure Window Behaviour
> - in Configure - KDE Control Module: scroll down to Window Rules
> - RHS: click Window settings for gnome-terminal | Modify
> - Window tab | Window Role = "" (remove the text indicating a specific
> window)
> - OK.
> 
> Test:
> - close gnome-terminal
> - start gnome-terminal (yay!)

This option worked great for me. Thank You!

This problem still exists in fedora 18.  gnome-terminal shrinks to minimum size in KDE.

This problem still exists in fedora 19

resetting WONTFIX -> UPSTREAM , I'd recommend followups to go there,
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649680