How to change the gnome-terminal default size (ubuntu)
On widescreen LCDs, gnome-terminal looks so tiny. Aren't you sick of resizing it everytime you do a ls -al ?
Here's a good solution to this, and will work with any shortcut icon you may use to start Terminal.
- Open Terminal.
- Type :
gksudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm
- Enter your password (root password) if necessary.
- Find something like that (yours must be different, just look around line 10):
:co#80:it#8:li#24:\
- Change the first and last number, for example to set the default size to 200 columns x 50 lines:
:co#200:it#8:li#50:\
- Save.
- Close every Terminal.
- Open a new Terminal, Enjoy!
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Mihail said
March 11 2009 @ 10:11 am
Very nice. Thanks ^^
nick said
April 24 2009 @ 2:24 am
Thanks! And wow, no wonder I never found that - xterm stuff is black magic..
vincent said
June 8 2009 @ 6:44 pm
neat, I used to create a shortcut with geometry param. to set my favorite size, but this just seems the right approach to it !
ntwrkguru said
June 18 2009 @ 10:44 am
Very simple and effective tip! Thanks for posting it!
Gary Flores said
June 25 2009 @ 9:26 am
This is Excellent, I used the geometry option in the launcher, but Gnome do was obviously not working!!!
Now IT DOES! Thanks.
pol said
August 16 2009 @ 1:00 pm
Sweet. That saved me around 2minutes per day and much more annoyance.
Ryan Edwards said
November 4 2009 @ 11:22 pm
Thanks for the tip. Worked like a charm.
Chris said
November 19 2009 @ 11:10 pm
This is what I was looking for...I looked in gnomes site, and ubuntu. I even hosed my terminal in the process, had to log in as root to fix. This is the only thing that worked, thx.
FG said
November 20 2009 @ 4:18 am
Thanks 4 the tip
jason bourne said
January 7 2010 @ 7:45 am
thanks man. worked perfectly
sri said
January 11 2010 @ 1:24 am
Thank you! Works perfectly in Ubuntu 9.10