[lug] Gnome term default size

John Hernandez John.Hernandez at noaa.gov
Tue Mar 6 17:03:41 MST 2001


Putting my observation together with D. Stimits', perhaps try tossing a "geometry" directive into your ~/.gnome/Terminal file.

-John

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> John Starkey wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm. I don't have one of those. Any idea what the pXvXwG would stand for? I
> > could try and make one. But it makes sense that there has to be a variable
> > somewhere in what I do have.
> 
> All .gnome files that end with those random letters really are somewhat
> random. They are like session cookies to identify temp files that belong
> to a particular session, and are created either at the start of the
> gnome session, or at the start of an application. They should be erased
> either at the end of the application, the end of the session, or at
> startup to the next session. All of them can be used as a sample of
> configuration in some other file (which file is your guess), but are not
> themselves intended to be edited.
> 
> >
> > This reminds me of those annoying "about: blank" windows that popup in
> > Wincrap.
> >
> > John Hernandez wrote:
> >
> > > I've got a ~/.gnome/gnome-terminal-pXvXwG file which contains:
> > >
> > > geometry=80x24+14+30
> > >
> > > maybe?
> > >
> > > John Starkey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Somehow I managed to get a default gnome terminal size of about 1500px
> > > > wide. My res is set to 1024x768 so this tends to be a problem :}
> > > >
> > > > All I was doing at the time was setting the default font as far as I can
> > > > remember. I just checked ~/.gnome/Terminal and don't see anything that
> > > > hints to a default size. Anyone know where else I may be able to find
> > > > this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
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