Comments on: How to change the gnome-terminal default size (ubuntu & xubuntu)

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:34:56 +0000

Thank you very much!!! I don't understand why Ubuntu skipped the size-configuration in the terminal options...

By: Samuel

Samuel — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:09:56 +0000

You can also simply edit the terminal shortcut and add the command "--geometry=XXxYY"

gnome-terminal --geometry=80x36

By: manoj

manoj — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:53:34 +0000

Richard,

Give it a try with Arnaud Soyez's solution. Hope it works..

For ur quick reference:

Edit ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc
And change the value for MiscDefaultGeometry.

For example:
MiscDefaultGeometry=120x50

By: manoj

manoj — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:51:28 +0000

Thanks a lot Arnaud Soyez..I had posted this some where in march and had totally forgotten this. Today i felt like solving the issue and guess what, ur response was ready.

Thanks again. This issue is solved for me

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:32:05 +0000

Hi, would be grateful for some advice. I am a linux noob and can't seem to get this to work.
I edited the /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm file and closed the terminal (even used killall gnome-terminal to be sure), but all later terminals are opening at 80x24

Any ideas?
Thanks