Wasted space at bottom of terminal windows

[Mike Massonnet]

2011/12/22 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>:
> 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.

Cool :)

Mike