Overview Description: The size of the terminal window gets larger while opening the first new tab. That's a problem if the window is already maximized, since the final size will exceed the start of the toolbar on the bottom of the screen. It's really annoying having to re-maximize the window after that. And the size of the window gets smaller while closing the last tab (when there are only two tabs) On the other hand, if there are two tabs, at least, the window size doesn't change while opening new ones (I think that should be the correct behavior of it anytime). The same same behaviour can be seen if there are more than 2 tabs and one closes one of them. The window size keeps the same (correct behaviour). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the terminal and maximize the window. 2. Open a new tab and see how window size exceeds the "window area", on the screen. 3. Close this new tab and see how the size gets smaller.
This is a problem that has been reported various times, but cannot be fixed currently, because of the way GTK+ works (it also depends on the theme engine in use). However, Terminal 0.2.5 and above includes a hidden setting MiscAlwaysShowTabs, which causes the notebook to always display the tab headers even if a window contains only a single tab (see the "Hidden options" section in the manual for details). Therefore add a single MiscAlwaysShowTabs=TRUE to your ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc .
*** Bug 2001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***