Just after starting up the terminal the scrollbar is positioned incorrectly - it ends ~1 line above the "grip" widget. Resizing the terminal or adding a tab brings the scrollbar to a normal position.
Created attachment 4116 (screenshot) Incorrect placement of the scrollbar.
Created attachment 4117 (screenshot) Correct placement of the scrollbar. Obtained after resizing the terminal window an bringing it back to the original size.
The Xfce terminal doesn't have a grip handle...
(In reply to comment #3) > The Xfce terminal doesn't have a grip handle... That's xfce4-terminal 0.4.8 from Ubuntu 11.10. Not sure if they have added any changes. Later I'll check a version compiled from source.
(In reply to comment #3) > The Xfce terminal doesn't have a grip handle... I've compiled Terminal from ssh://git@git.xfce.org/apps/terminal master. It behaves same as the version shipped with Ubuntu. The theme I'm using is LegacyHuman but the same effect appears with other themes too (although switching the theme when the terminal is running fixes it).
It seems Ubuntu patched GTK+ to always show resize grips, unless the application explicitly tells otherwise: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/704105. Maybe adding a call to gtk_window_set_has_resize_grip with FALSE could fix this?
gtk_window_set_has_resize_grip is added in gtk 3.0, but it indeed looks like something like that is going on.
Not a terminal issue.