We did not modify the source code of the terminal. In Kali 2021.1 we mention that we added the kali color-scheme to some terminals, but never modified the code of qterminal. In fact we don't package the terminal, it comes directly from the debian package ( which is a bit outdated, so maybe that's why they think it's modified)

What I don't understand is why the bookmarks have changed, because there has not been an update in the qterminal package from debian since 2020-12-18. Here are the 2 packages needed for qterminal:
http://pkg.kali.org/pkg/qterminal
http://pkg.kali.org/pkg/qtermwidget

If so, it's definitely very strange. I have Kali 2020.4 installed and everything is fine over there (from there I took a screenshot).
I checked with other people who installed Kali Linux recently (2021.4, 2022.1) all of them with the same problem.

any ideas ?

I have installed Kali Linux 2022 without any problem. No problem is coming in the new version of 2022.

alfakali, I'v installed 2022.1 also but it's the same. can you please provide a screenshot from qterminal with Bookmarks open ?

Works for me, on a fresh Kali install. Didn't change anything, just installed Kali, opened a terminal, enabled bookmarks, and here it is:

Did you try to reset your qterminal config? You just need to move the qterminal.ini somewhere else, but you need to be sure that qterminal is not running.

To do that, close all your qterminal instances, then start xterm, and try that:

$ cd ~/.config/qterminal.org/

$ mv qterminal.ini qterminal.ini.backup

Then launch qterminal again, it should start with the default config. Maybe that's enough to fix the issue?

if you want to get back to your previous settings, just copy the file qterminal.ini.backup (created above) back to qterminal.ini (once again, do that with xterm, and make sure all qterminal instances are closed).

I really don't know what are differents and why me and my 2 friends got this problem, and you have it working well.
I tried full installation from ISO, I tried pre-made VMWare version downloaded from kali.org website - both the same issue.
here's another screenshot

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And i want to mention that i tired it on different PC's.
1 - Win10 running VMware
2 - Macbook Pro M1 running Parallel
3 - 2 Win10 laptops with VMware also.
all of them have the same problem.

Anyone got a clue about this bug?

Problem solved:
if you mark the "Enable bookmarks" -> problem fixed.
if unmarked -> width is smaller.

Closing as it is solved.