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P2erut

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Registered: 2025-11-30

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Xfce terminal not resizing properly

I'm using Debian/Xfce, resizing the terminal window leaves gaps as it follows the character size, same goes for xterm.

For instance dwm allows you to disable the resizehints variable to resize all windows freely.

I have not found such alternative in this window manager.

Last edited by P2erut (2025-11-30 14:18:43)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,356

Re: Xfce terminal not resizing properly

Hello and welcome.

See: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/issues/83. Its an open enhancement request but there is a script there that can be adapted as a workaround as well as info about vte padding.

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P2erut

Member

Registered: 2025-11-30

Posts: 2

Re: Xfce terminal not resizing properly

Hello and welcome.

See: https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/issues/83. Its an open enhancement request but there is a script there that can be adapted as a workaround as well as info about vte padding.

Thanks, ended up using the script in .bashrc :

if [ "xfce4-terminal" ]
then
 xprop -id $WINDOWID -remove WM_NORMAL_HINTS
fi