I would prefer a continuous resizing instead of a grid based resizing. I guess the grid is based on the font size. But other applications are all continuously resizing. For example I prefer all Terminals on one desktop, usually 3 or 4 in a grid with tabs: +------------+------------+ |t1|t2|t3 |t1|t2|t3 | |------------|------------| |sh $ |sh $ | | | | | | | | +------------+ | |t1|t2|t3 | | |------------| | |sh $ | | | | | | | +------------+------------+ Now it is quite impossible to align the 3 windows without gaps due to gridded resizing. A work-around would be to have snapping to ignore the grid.
Currently I'm using tilda as Terminal replacement. It has continuous resizing, the rest is quite equal to Terminal, also quite small code base. But also there I have other issues where Terminal is in advance: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3525447&group_id=126081&atid=704598
Too bad that there is nothing on the 4.12 roadmap and wishlist for Terminal. I understand now that Terminal is based on vte and this feature request may rather belong to vte. But as far as I read even if vte resizing is grid based there is the possibility to force it by the derived application. I'm using terminator now which fits to most needs and I'm looking forward to further tiling features of xfwm-4.12 itself if not going for a tiling wm anyway.
Afaik Vte-3 has this feature, with Vte-2 the size of the terminal window always has to be a multiple of the line height / character width, plus decorations and other widgets.
Vte-3 definitely supports arbitrary widget size, the extra amount at the right and bottom will be blank. I remember it used to suffer from drawing artifacts if the size was not properly aligned; I can't tell if these were fixed during the Vte-2 days or not. Just my 2 cents: Konsole doesn't have grid based resizing and it drives me nuts. I think forcing the grid should be the default for a terminal and probably that's what most users would prefer. (If it's a configure option to change it then of course I'm totally okay with that.)
Resolved by migration to vte3.
I think this bug is still open in combination with xfwm4: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/1422626 Would it be possible to implement an option in xfce4-terminal that it specifies pixel hints instead of size increments? This would would fix this bug thats bugging people for years: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14869 https://forum.manjaro.org/t/xfce-terminal-borders-unevenly/71482 https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/a18zet/gaps_when_tiling_windows/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/583324/xubuntu-tiling-how-to-maximize-terminal-window-for-partial-tiling https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=10863 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/399956