How to change the gnome-terminal default size (ubuntu)

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 11:38 administrator

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!