Currently konsole window can be resized like any other. But it is inconvenient in e.g. Midnight Commander when a window hasn't got exactly N characters width/height. For example, in Terminal from Xfce default behaviour is to resize only to integer number of characters. Would be great if konsole had such an option. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Resize konsole window with mc started. Actual Results: Annoying black "edges". Expected Results: Option to snap to character size.
Created attachment 76201 [details] An example of bad window size
Thanks for reporting. I agree the requested behavior is better .
Created attachment 84635 [details] Profile settings for size snaping.
Created attachment 84636 [details] Naive implementation of window size snaping
I took a shot at implementing this as a profile setting, split across two patches. One for the settings and UI changes for the profile editor, and the other a naive approach that has a bit of a hack in order to get Qt to size the window correctly and TerminalDisplay to get the right number of rows and columns (I'm not familar enough with Konsole or Qt to know why it behaves the way it does, perhaps someone who knows a bit more about how Qt handles size increments might be able to shed some light on it).
Thanks for the patches - is there any reason to not just have this enabled and remove the GUI part?
This is still relevant in 2022, and would still be great to have! The patches don't apply as-is, but might be good after being rewritten to match the current code. Having it as a setting might still be useful, in case someone would rather have the window exactly conforming to maximized screen size or window tiling zones. We don't personally need it, but I'm not sure whether other people would. Should it be a profile setting (like the existing patch has), or a global setting? It'd make more sense as a global setting to me, I think. -- Frost
> Should it be a profile setting (like the existing patch has), or a global setting? Since one window may combine tabs with different profiles, and even splits within a tab, it would make more sense as a global setting. And I'm really not sure how should it behave with different fonts and sizes across those tabs and splits. Clearly they are not bound to always match each other. What do other terminal implementations have to show for it? (fancy way of wondering how do they behave?)
gnome-terminal just doesn't have a setting for it, and always snaps. Huh, didn't think about different profiles in one window... /that/ complicates things. gnome-terminal doesn't look like it even has splits. If we still used Mac, I'd look to see what Terminal.app and iTerm2 did, although I bet they only had one profile per window. Would snapping to the grid of /any/ of the current fonts combined work (so e.g. if you have a 12px-tall font and a 15px-tall font it'd snap to both the 12px and the 15px grid "lines")? Although, no that doesn't really fit with the window manager side of things going on an increment. Maybe just the largest font in the window, or the smallest, using the current non-snapping alignment behavior for other-profile splits. -- Frost
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