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Gnome Terminal default size

I was sick of having to resize the gnome terminal after each launch, so here’s a way of changing the default size permanently

sudo vim /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm

change the line

:co#80:it#8:li#24:\

:co#120:it#8:li#50:\

if you want a1 20×50 terminal.

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Ed

Nice piece of info. So how did you figure it out? Did you have to sift through source code or is there documentation on this? Thanks

Posted on 09-Apr-09 at 21:20 | Permalink
choochus

Great options! Also, I just saw this answer on the Ubuntu Forums:

create a launcher (or edit menu entry with alacarte) that launches gnome term like this: “gnome-terminal –geometry 420×64″

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=251556

Posted on 10-Apr-09 at 21:25 | Permalink