Bug#649579: gnome-terminal: sends unnecessary SIGWINCHes

[Geoffrey Thomas]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.0.1-1

Hi,

I have two maximized tabs in gnome-terminal, one of which has a smaller or 
larger font size ("zoomed" with Ctrl-plus or Ctrl-minus). I have a pretty 
uncustomized Wheezy (GNOME 3) desktop, on a 1366x768 screen. If I switch 
from the zoomed tab to the normal-size tab with Ctrl-PgUp/PgDwn, 
gnome-terminal seems to send a SIGWINCH to that tab, followed by another 
one, apparently resizing the window to the size of the zoomed tab, and 
then realizing that it's maximized and reverting to the old tab size.

It would be much smoother if the SIGWINCHes were simply not sent; since 
gnome-terminal is maximized, the number of rows and columns is not going 
to change based on the terminal resizing.

I'm happy to report this upstream if you'd like -- I didn't see anything 
along these lines in a cursory search of GNOME Bugzilla.

Thanks for looking into this,
-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
http://ldpreload.com
geofft at ldpreload.com