Guake window opens maximized but resets to correct size after opening new tab or toggling full screen

[dniku]

Describe the bug

Screencast.From.2025-03-10.10-02-04.mp4

See the screencast above. I pressed the following keys: F12, Ctrl+Shift+T, Ctrl+D, F12, F12, F12. Note how the window initially opens maximized but switches to the correct height after I open a new tab.

This started happening after I upgraded Guake version from 3.9.0-3 to 3.10-3 on Manjaro. I can no longer downgrade because Python version got upgraded in the meantime.

Expected behavior

Consistent window size.

Actual behavior

Window initially maximized.

To Reproduce

Just launch Guake.

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Output of guake -v

$ guake --support

Guake Version: 3.11.dev0

Vte Version: 0.78.3

Vte Runtime Version: 0.78.3

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GTK+ Version: 3.24.48

GDK Backend: <GdkX11.X11Display

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Desktop Session: gnome

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Display: :1

RGBA visual: True

Composited: True

• Monitor: 0 - SHP eDP-1
  • Geometry: 1920 x 1080 % 2 at 0, 0
  • Size: 346 x 194 mm²
  • Primary: True
  • Refresh rate: 59.996 Hz
  • Subpixel layout: unknown

[jean-bernard-valentaten]

Similar issue here with fresh install on Ubuntu 24.04 using Gnome.

Repro

1. In the guake preferences, set window-height=90
2. Make guake appear (press <F12>))
   => guake opens in a window taking up 90% of desktop height
3. hide guake (press <F12>)
4. make guake appear (press <F12>)
   => guake opens in a window taking up 100% of desktop height and 100% of desktop width
5. enable fullscreen mode (press <F11>)
6. revert fullscreen mode (press <F11>)
   => guake reverts to a window taking up 90% of desktop height

I can confirm that opening a new tab also reverts the window's height to the expected value.

Playing around with the parameter window-height I found out that this behaviour starts happening with a value of 85, below that the window behaves as expected in terms of height.

Here are my preferences as exported by guake --save-prefences:

$ guake --save-preferences=myprefs.cfg

[general]
abbreviate-tab-names=false
background-image-file='some.svg'
background-image-layout-mode=2
display-n=0
display-tab-names=0
fullscreen-hide-tabbar=false
gtk-use-system-default-theme=true
hide-tabs-if-one-tab=false
history-size=2000
load-guake-yml=true
max-tab-name-length=100
mouse-display=true
open-tab-cwd=true
prompt-on-close-tab=1
prompt-on-quit=true
quick-open-command-line='gedit %(file_path)s'
restore-tabs-notify=true
restore-tabs-startup=true
save-tabs-when-changed=true
scroll-keystroke=true
start-at-login=true
use-default-font=false
use-popup=false
use-scrollbar=true
use-trayicon=false
window-halignment=0
window-height=90
window-losefocus=false
window-ontop=false
window-refocus=true
window-tabbar=true
window-vertical-displacement=50
window-width=95
[keybindings/local]

decrease-transparency='Down'

focus-terminal-down='Down'

focus-terminal-left='Left'

focus-terminal-right='Right'

focus-terminal-up='Up'

increase-transparency='Up'

split-tab-horizontal='minus'

split-tab-vertical='less'
[style/background]

transparency=75
[style/font]

allow-bold=true

palette='#000000000000:#cccc00000000:#4e4e9a9a0606:#c4c4a0a00000:#34346565a4a4:#757550507b7b:#060698209a9a:#d3d3d7d7cfcf:#555557575353:#efef29292929:#8a8ae2e23434:#fcfce9e94f4f:#72729f9fcfcf:#adad7f7fa8a8:#3434e2e2e2e2:#eeeeeeeeecec:#ffffffffffff:#000000000000'

palette-name='Tango'

style='UbuntuMono Nerd Font 13'

And here's the output of `guake --support`:

$ guake --support

Guake Version: 3.10 Vte Version: 0.76.0 Vte Runtime Version: 0.76.0 -------------------------------------------------- GTK+ Version: 3.24.41 GDK Backend: