Bug#370827: vim-full: window size gets reduced on every restore from (gnome-)session

[Andreas Bombe]

Package: vim-full
Version: 1:7.0-017+5
Severity: minor

When I leave a gvim window open in a GNOME session so that it is saved
on logout, it will restore on the next login to a height two (I think)
lines smaller than it was left.  This requires manual resizing or you'll
get a very small window indeed after a few iterations.

Judging by the way the window looks to be drawn on startup, I suspect
that it's either the menu, toolbar or both playing into it.  It seems to
save the dimensions of the text window on shutdown and restores a pure
text window of the same size on login, enabling menu and toolbar only
afterwards which then take up some of the text space.

I think vim 6 had the same problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vim-full depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.11.4-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.14.0-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-13      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.0.4-2       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1             2.3.2-5.1     generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.14.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.10.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          0.4.9-1       GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-1      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgpmg1                   1.19.6-22     General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.18-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    1:1.0.0-3     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                5.5-2         Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.12.3-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libperl5.8                 5.8.8-5       Shared Perl library
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-1        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libruby1.8                 1.8.4-2       Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libsm6                     1:1.0.0-4     X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.0-6     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.5.2-5     X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.0-4     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:3.0.1.2-4   X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.0-5     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.0.2-4   X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                     1:1.0.0-5     X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python2.3                  2.3.5-9.1     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  tcl8.4                     8.4.12-1      Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  vim-gui-common             1:7.0-017+5   Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
ii  vim-runtime                1:7.0-017+5   Vi IMproved - Runtime files
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-11    compression library - runtime

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