This bug occurs on Arch Linux x86_64 using the official xfce4-terminal package version 0.6.3-2 (Built on Sun 01 Mar 2015 02:59:31 AM PST). Visuals 01-maximized-with-menubar.png: https://i.imgur.com/gEhqdTt.png 02-maximized-no-menubar.png: https://i.imgur.com/yJdlWFl.png 03-fullscreen-with-menubar.png: https://i.imgur.com/3oCmYe8.png 04-fullscreen-no-menubar.png: https://i.imgur.com/Q5rVtnb.png Description With the terminal's menubar disabled, fullscreen mode appears to chop off a useable portion of the bottom part of the screen. This happens in all cases, ranging from the command line to Vim. I hypothesize this is a GTK or X11 issue, because the same phenomenon occurs in XTerm, URxvt and LXTerminal.
See http://askubuntu.com/questions/687885/how-to-remove-the-bottom-blank-line-of-gnome-terminal-in-fullscreen-mode
Not seeing this in current gtk3 version. Andy, could you check it on your side? I'd need to build the terminal from git, or use the AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce4-terminal-git/
@Igor, I see no issue with a 16 px font, but the issue remains with a 24 px font.
(In reply to Andy Weidenbaum from comment #0) > [...] mode appears to chop off a useable portion of the bottom part No, it chops off an _unusable_ portion: less than a complete line. What else could it do there??? Guys, seriously, read my previous comment. This bugreport is invalid, works as expected.
Egmont, I agree that it works as expected.
[By the way, vte-0.44 implemented super smooth scrolling (that is, scrolling by pixels rather than character rows in the scrollback history), and it uses that bottom area when you scroll back. It still doesn't (cannot) use that area during normal operation, though.]
Just for the record, here is what gvim fullscreened looks like: https://i.imgur.com/YKkxEDA.jpg Compare that to what vim fullscreened running in xfce4-terminal looks like: https://i.imgur.com/SGyeh4Z.jpg Note in the xfce case, there is a roughly 10px area of useable space that is blacked out at the bottom of the screen. This previously didn't happen with xfce4-terminal. It still doesn't happen with gvim.