My monitor setup is such that I have a monitor mounted over top my laptop. The monitor is 1920x1080 and the laptop is 1280x800. So in terms of position, the monitor has a bit of extra room on the left and right side of the laptop.
In terms of xrandr, the positions are setup as:
xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --pos 320x1080 --output VGA1 --auto --pos 0x0
When I open Mate Terminal, it opens up as a skinny terminal at 33x24. If I go to Edit >> Profile Preferences
the default is set to 80x24. If I launch Mate Terminal through the command line with mate-terminal --geometry=80x24
the same issue occurs. It is opening at 33x24.
One thing I noticed with my monitor at top is it’s configured weird. When I move a window around, galculator for example, there are snap points in the middle of the monitor. It feels like the snap points are at the edges of the laptop dimensions. So one snap point is at 320 pixels and the other is at 1600 (320+1280).
Note, the xrandr command is just to show the setup. The same issue happens if I use the built-in Display preferences as well as if I use arandr.
Another note, if I have the monitor setup to be on the right, the terminal opens at the correct size.
It seems the monitor position and snap points are affecting the terminal size. Any ideas on how I can fix this?