Wasted space at bottom of terminal windows

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:35:19PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:08:12PM +0100, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> >    Hi,
> > 
> >    Le 22 dec. 2011 13:32, "Chris Green" <[1]cl at isbd.net> a ecrit :
> >    >
> >    > Since I upgraded to xubuntu 11.10 I seem to have gained some wasted
> >    > space at the bottom of all my terminal windows.  I'm running "Terminal
> >    > 0.4.8".
> >    >
> >    > The wasted space seems to be a whole line at the bottom of the window,
> >    > the scroll bar stops early too.  At the bottom, below the scroll bar, is
> >    > a little triangle in the corner of the window with 'pimples' on it, the
> >    > whole width of the window adjacent to this is unused.
> >    >
> >    > Can I turn this 'extra' off somehow?
> > 
> >    It sounds like `a theming issue. Can you try with `a different GTK and
> >    Xfwm theme?
> > 
> Changing theme doesn't have any effect on this.  Themes with a thick,
> obvious frame just show what a big gap there is at the bottom of the
> screen (between the last used line of text and the frame that is).
> 
> For example I'm running mutt at the moment whichputs a status line on
> the last line of the window.  The status line is dark and there's a
> whole line of light/background below it.
> 
> Hmm, I've just noticed an adjacent window is acting differently! Let me
> exit and restart the system and see if anything has got sorted out.
> 
Yes, I think it must have been something to do with changing themes and
then Update Manager updating things and not doing a system restart on
the way.  A system restart seems to have sorted things out.

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Chris Green