Geez... indeed. I can confirm that look with vte and gnome-terminal Ubuntu packages. It looks awful.
I'm using vte and gnome-terminal from git (the rest is stock 17.10). They don't have this visual problem, but the shrinkage is there. So probably it's irrelevant.
Not sure by the way if it's something that's been fixed in vte/g-t since (I can't recall anything like that) or it's caused by an Ubuntu patch (that would be my primary guess).
Geez... indeed. I can confirm that look with vte and gnome-terminal Ubuntu packages. It looks awful.
I'm using vte and gnome-terminal from git (the rest is stock 17.10). They don't have this visual problem, but the shrinkage is there. So probably it's irrelevant.
Also, Ubuntu's vte & gnome-terminal packages look okay under Unity 7.
Not sure by the way if it's something that's been fixed in vte/g-t since (I can't recall anything like that) or it's caused by an Ubuntu patch (that would be my primary guess).