Confirming Shabang's workaround fixes my issue (as well as comment #22
and #23). I'm running 12.04.3 LTS w/ the latest updates. IIRC my
original install was 11.04 and I used the update-manager to upgrade my
release.
Linux calculon 3.2.0-53-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 21:01:03 UTC
2013 x86_
I first encountered this problem after upgrading from 10.10 (an upgrade
from 10.04) to 11.04. I did not see it in 10.10. I am using the system
fixed width font.
To reproduce:
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --geometry=80x24 --show-menubar
My terminal dimension is actually 80x22. When I hide the menub