Do not resize the window when hiding the tab bar

[madx]

I've got TABBAR_AUTOHIDE set to TRUE, and when I close the last tab but one, the window gets automatically resized to its default size.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a tab
2. Resize the window
3. Close the opened tab

I think this is a bad behavior

[caleb-]

Sorry for replying so late. I have not login these days.
I think you are using GTK+ 3.x.
Resizing behavior of GTK+ 3.x is very strange.
Many VTE-based terminal emulators are suffering various weird window-resizing bugs.
(gnome-terminal only works under gnome. when you use it in other window managers, its window-resizing behavior is very buggy.)

evilvte basically do not handle any window-resizing event. I just use some workaround so it can meet my needs.

If you want GTK+ 3.x with VTE, I think you can try ROXTerm.

[madx]

I'm using GTK+ 3.x indeed, with Gnome 3.6. Do you have any pointers on how this could be fixed or worked around? I may take some of my spare time to try and find a solution.

As to switching to ROXTerm, it seems to have way too much features, and I'm rather considering using tmux instead of tabs.

[caleb-]

The problem is resizing of VTE and resizing of GTK_NOTEBOOK(tabs of GTK+) do not co-work well.
The problem was also in GTK+ 2.x, but many terminal emulators use various workarounds and magic tricks to overcome it.
(evilvte do not handle it though. :-P)

However, GTK+ 3.x changed its window-resizing / window-size-announcing behavior. Workarounds for GTK+ 2.x does not work any more.

If you plan to use tmux with VTE, I think you may turn off tabs.

1. evilvte could disable tabs. (#define TAB FALSE)
2. libVTE itself has a demo terminal emulator called vte2_90. It has no tabs (no GTK_NOTEBOOK). However, some binary distributions does not ship it to users. You may have to compile it from libVTE source.
3. try demo.c listed in http://www.calno.com/evilvte
   It supports GTK+ 3.x and is a mininal barely functional VTE terminal emulator.

[madx]

Thanks for you answer, I'll stick with disabling tabs in evilvte, and maybe investigate further in this notebook/VTE issue.

I also noticed that I'm not able to resize the terminal smaller than 80x24 (I've not tried to tweak DEFAULT_TERMINAL_SIZE yet). May this be related to this issue?

[caleb-]

Yes, a workaround for GTK+ 3.x.