ANNOUNCE: xfce4-terminal 0.8.5 released

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 09:43:25PM -0400, Igor Zakharov wrote:
>    Hi Zenaan,
>    Thanks for the report!
>    I have some questions to you:
>    1. Have you tried 0.8.5.1?

No, but it's not the pty/term program, just the window manager I'm
pretty sure.


>    2. If you change you second monitor orientation to horizontal, will this help?

Yes this solves the problem of course - when both monitors are the
same resolution and the same orientation. The problem is when the
horiz/vert resolution of one monitor (where the mouse is currently
on), is different to the resolution of the target monitor on which
the new term is actually created/displayed.


>    3. Do other terminal apps, such as xterm and gnome-terminal, behave the same way?

Yes, it's the same at least for xterm and xfce4-terminal

Regards,
Zenaan


>    Thanks,
>    Igor
> 
> 
>    14.05.2017, 20:33, "Zenaan Harkness" <zen at freedbms.net>:
> 
>      On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:18:04AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 
>       On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:27:28PM +0200, Igor wrote:
>       > xfce4-terminal 0.8.5 is now available for download from
>       >
>       > Release notes for 0.8.5
>       > =======================
>       >
>       > - Create terminal of desired size instead of default size of 80x24: this
>       > allows
>       > to avoid resizing the terminal right after creation (#13521)
>       >
>       > - Use default terminal geometry when --geometry parameter is used but
>       > its value
>       > only contains X and Y offsets
>       >
>       > - Calculate screen dimensions properly when having multiple monitors
>       With the default font size, when I:
>        - use a term on my left monitor, and
>        - create an xfce4-terminal on the right monitor with this geometry:
>           xfce4-terminal --geometry 80x90+1920+0
>       then the new terminal is created with rows 134 (rather than 90).
>       But, if I use a term on my RHS monitor to create the new
>       xfce5-terminal with that geometry, it has the correct size (80x90).
>       I believe this is a window manager bug.
>       See also: [1]https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2017-April/035547.html
> 
>      Bug report filed here:
>      [2]https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13575
>      Regards,
>      Zenaan