bugmacosterminal
Each time I open and close new tab in Terminal app, the size of window "shrinks" by one line, until it reaches 5 lines, where it stops shrinking at last.
I can literally keep repeating sequence ⌘+T and ⌘+W to reproduce this any time.
I have tried changing Terminal settings, font family and font size, but nothing helped. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this?
Note: this question is not related to Opening tab in Terminal resizes window.
You need to, in the window you want to move, go to View-> Show Tab Bar (if the tab bar isn't showing already).
Then, drag the tab of the window you want to move onto the window you want to move it to.
Update for iTerm 2: In iTerm 2 the setting is no longer exposed in the View menu. Go to iTerm > Preferences > Appearance > Tabs and check "Show tab bar even when there is only one tab". Note that in early releases of iTerm 2 the setting was "Hide tab bar when there is only one tab".
While this is not a full solution but more of a workaround, I still thought it's worth sharing.
Like many on this thread, I noticed that, much to my annoyance, the Terminal window changes size when I add new Tab on El Capitan (10.11.3). I'm also using Spectacle for arranging my windows from the keyboard. I thought it might be an issue with spectacle but the same happens when I quit spectacle and resize Terminal windows with touchpad.
From what I noticed it only happens to me when when the below sequence is followed: 1. Open a new Terminal window 2. Add a new tab 3. Make the window smaller (height or width) 4. Add a new tab, and this one will change the size of the window.
Nothing happens when I make it bigger. I figured through experimentation that each and every tab in the window must be holding it's dimensions form when it was last viewed. In this particular scenario the last new tab in step 4 will change the size of the window to what it was when tab 1 was last viewed.
Now this is most important bit. The new tabs will adjust its dimensions to the biggest tab in the window.
Workaround: When I resize the Terminal window, I use Shift+CMD+Arrows to quickly browse through all the tab in this window. If I do that, new tabs will not affect the size of the window.
While it might be useful to some, I understand that it is not really practical, especially if you have a lot of tabs open. It is my way of dealing with this until a proper solution comes along.
Best Answer
The solution is to turn on setting to always show tab bar, even if only one tab is open in window:
View→Show Tab Bar,This is just a workaround I have found on this site to a bug that is present in Terminal app at least since 2009. So far this is the only solution that was working for me consistently on every OS X installation.