Xfce resizes terminal window by itself

Question

Recently changed from Gnome to Xfce; I've set my default terminal to gnome-terminal, but when I start it, it is started with the normal 80x24 size, but the right border is immediately shrunk (with a 'slide' animation) to make it very narrow which is damn annoying
It is being started with the command "exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator". Any ideas why it would be doing this?

Answer 1

Well, I think it is problem with gtk engine.
you need to have ABS installed and synchronized.
Go to /var/abs/extra/gnome-terminal and copy all files in this folder to some folder in your /home. Then Edit PKGBUILD and delete "--with-gtk=3.0"  so PKGBUILD will look like this:
# $Id: PKGBUILD 121328 2011-04-30 15:31:28Z ibiru $
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <[email protected]>
pkgname=gnome-terminal
pkgver=3.0.1
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="The GNOME Terminal Emulator"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL')
depends=('gconf' 'vte3' 'gsettings-desktop-schemas' 'libsm')
makedepends=('gnome-doc-utils' 'gtk2' 'intltool')
#gtk2 is needed for gtk-builder-convert
#https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588945
#https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588732
options=('!emptydirs')
url="http://www.gnome.org"
groups=('gnome')
install=gnome-terminal.install
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/${pkgname}/3.0/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
exitcode.patch)
sha256sums=('388eda40663566cb785e2d92180e0b584c2c89acc3e7bcd30605601710fddc48'
'263030e9905329d8e651421b575a80c37e30733373378896c94d2c6d6e0ee056')
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/exitcode.patch"
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var --disable-scrollkeeper
make
package() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
make GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1 DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gconf/schemas"
gconf-merge-schema "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas" --domain gnome-terminal ${pkgdir}/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
rm -f ${pkgdir}/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
Then, issue a command "makepkg" and install it with "sudo pacman -S gnome-terminal-3.0.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz"