Gnome-terminal in Ubuntu Unity shrinks to minimum size

Solution 1:

Unfortunately this bug has not yet been resolved. As you can see, this is due to an issue with using Adwaita, BUT:

I found that switching to the Vertex theme was not only an acceptable solution, but I think I prefer it to other options right now:

Instructions are here: Github Installation Section, but I simply used the xUbuntu packages here for Ubuntu 15.04; drop to shell and do:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_15.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vertex-theme.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vertex-theme

I then wanted to get the matching icons, and so used this for reference:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moka/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install moka-icon-theme
mkdir ~/.icons
cd ~/.icons
git clone https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-Icons.git 

Hopefully you already have Unity Tweak Tool (sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool) installed. Then simply go in to its Appearance section -> Theme and pick Vertex-dark for your Theme and then pop over to Icons and select Vertex-icons if you like.

FYI, Breeze icons also look nice or perhaps just Moka itself without Vertex. If you like the icons from the screenshot above, use Ardis.