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[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see a problem here. Copying from "man X":

The WIDTH and HEIGHT parts of the geometry  specification  are  usually
measured  in either pixels or characters, depending on the application.

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Title:
  contradictory geometry description

Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  gnome-terminal's man pages describes option --geometry as:

  --geometry=GEOMETRY
                   X geometry specification (see "X" man page), can be specified once per window to be opened.

  which is basically size in pixels and a position in the format
  WIDTHx‐HEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF, e.g. 1280x720+0+0

  However, gnome-terminal --help-all describes --geometry as:

    --geometry=GEOMETRY             Set the window size; for example:
  80x24, or 80x24+200+200 (COLSxROWS+X+Y)

  in other words, as columns by rows of text.

  Currently gnome-terminal in an updated 14.04 works following the
  latter definition, i.e., --geometry describes columns and rows of
  text.

  Regards.

  Extra info:

  $ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
  Release:	14.04
  Codename:	trusty

  $ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
  gnome-terminal:
    Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  
  P.S.: I believe these 2 bugs are related but they only notice the problem with the man page.

      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
  terminal/+bug/876311

      https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
  terminal/+bug/876307

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-48.80-generic 3.13.11-ckt16
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Nov  8 02:36:50 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-19 (537 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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