Description of problem: gnome terminal desktop shortcut ignores position arguments Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Gnome 3.16.2 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add geometry argument to local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop, for example: Exec=gnome-terminal --geometry=140x35+250+200 2. Launch terminal with shortcut 3. Actual results: geometry argument is ignored and terminal launches in right-top corner of screen Expected results: Terminal to launch with offset from right top corner of screen. Like it does when manually ran. Additional info:
Definitely not Fedora 22 because this is due to a gtk+ change during the Fedora 24 cycle.
(In reply to Debarshi Ray from comment #1) > Definitely not Fedora 22 because this is due to a gtk+ change during the > Fedora 24 cycle. The system having the problem is Fedora 22. See attachment.
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After upgrading to Fedora 24 Gnome Terminal returns a message when using the geometry argument. Example: gnome-terminal --window --geometry=140x35+250+250 Output: Option "--geometry" is no longer supported in this version of gnome-terminal. While the help is still listing its support: Usage: gnome-terminal [OPTION…] Help Options: -h, --help Show help options --help-all Show all help options --help-gtk Show GTK+ Options --help-terminal Show terminal options --help-window-options Show per-window options --help-terminal-options Show per-terminal options GTK+ Options --class=CLASS Program class as used by the window manager --name=NAME Program name as used by the window manager --gdk-debug=FLAGS GDK debugging flags to set --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS GDK debugging flags to unset --gtk-module=MODULES Load additional GTK+ modules --g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal --gtk-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to set --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS GTK+ debugging flags to unset Options to open new windows or terminal tabs; more than one of these may be specified: --window Open a new window containing a tab with the default profile --tab Open a new tab in the last-opened window with the default profile Window options; if used before the first --window or --tab argument, sets the default for all windows: --show-menubar Turn on the menubar --hide-menubar Turn off the menubar --maximize Maximise the window --full-screen Full-screen the window --geometry=GEOMETRY Set the window size; for example: 80x24, or 80x24+200+200 (COLSxROWS+X+Y) ...
Bug still present in Fedora 24 even though it looks fixed upstream? Can we backport that upstream patch to F24 for errata? Arnaud, I don't see that "no longer supported" message on my fully updated F24 system. Perhaps that was just a transient errata version? If it still occurs for you in F24 can you post the version # of your gnome-terminal?
Yes indeed. The geometry option is now accepted again. An observation: The first click on the gnome-terminal shortcut icon launches the terminal at the correct position as provided by the geometry option. The second and subsequent clicks the new terminal is positioned incorrectly at the left top.
Fedora 25 also positions the terminal at the left top the second time the desktop icon is clicked.
In F25 on bare metal, the position is correct when using "GNOME on Xorg", but ignored when using the default Wayland.
I tried asking in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/U6B7JWGFENLLDU6XZIOZU6J2AU25UIWU/ whether this is a general issue with Wayland (not being able to set the position of windows) or a specific gnome-terminal issue, but got no response. So I don't actually know if my observed behavior is a gnome-terminal bug.
Positioning doesn't work on wayland by design, nothing gnome-terminal can do to work around that.
(In reply to Christian Persch (GNOME) from comment #11) > Positioning doesn't work on wayland by design, nothing gnome-terminal can do > to work around that. Thanks for the info. From what I've gathered by googling (for example https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-Window-Positioning ) they're not opposed to it, and it should work eventually. I can wait.
(In reply to Christian Persch (GNOME) from comment #11) > Positioning doesn't work on wayland by design, nothing gnome-terminal can do > to work around that. So I tested it with Gnome on Xorg and had the same problem. Then I found out that it is actually working find if I launch it from within another terminal. Then I figured it had something to do with the command line in the gnome-terminal.desktop that I created, and that it was because the line wasn't quoted. I have added double quotes around the command and its arguments and now it works. And it also works on Wayland! I don't see anything on the latest specification about this at https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html, and as far as I remember it has worked before without quotes.
Hold on. The reason it is working is not because of the double quotes, it's because there is no other visible application window. How reproducible: Open any application and secondly open gnome terminal it will ignore the geometry. Now minimize all open windows and start gnome terminal with geometry and its works fine. Or don't start any other application from a new gnome session and it will also work fine Steps to Reproduce the error: 1. Add geometry argument to local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop, for example: Exec=gnome-terminal --geometry=140x35+250+200 2. Open any application 3. Launch gnome terminal with shortcut Actual results: geometry argument is ignored and terminal launches in left-top corner of screen Expected results: Terminal to launch with offset from left top corner of screen. Steps to make it work as expected: 1. Start a new gnome session 2. Launch gnome terminal with shortcut or 1. Minimize all visible application windows 2. Launch gnome terminal with shortcut
Update: The geometry seems to work for me now, but only if I disable default positioning in sawfish (my wm). I think I may have to talk to the sawfish guys to confirm the problem is now not on their side. That said, geometry specified for gnome-terminal on the command line used to override the sawfish option, and now it doesn't, so something is definitely wonky. At least I now have a workaround for when I run my big open-20-windows script: temporarily turn off sawfish's positioning option. Arnaud, I couldn't reproduce your symptoms in comment #14, which again leads me to think wm's me be affecting things here. What's your wm? If it's something other than the Fedora default (no idea what that is now, metacity still?) then you wm might be interfering somehow (of course not in wayland).
My (In reply to Trevor Cordes from comment #15) > Arnaud, I couldn't reproduce your symptoms in comment #14, which again leads > me to think wm's me be affecting things here. What's your wm? If it's > something other than the Fedora default (no idea what that is now, metacity > still?) then you wm might be interfering somehow (of course not in wayland). My WM is Gnome 3.22.2. I use Fedora defaults as much as possible. However, I have been using Fedora since ages and always kept my home directory when upgrading. Perhaps I have some configuration left behind that is no longer shipped with the latest version of Fedora? But that is just guessing.
I discovered I had 2 terminal icons in my menu. One in the Utilities menu group and one in the main application menu group. The one I was testing was apparently not the one I had added the geometry to and therefore it was not working. Now I have replaced the file .local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop with /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop and added the geometry and not I have one icon and the geometry works fine.