[lug] Re: Gnome term default size

[John Starkey]

Thank you very much. That did the trick.

I used the geometry option you stated below and it worked. So I deleted
it again and opened ~/.gnome/Terminal and entered the command in there
but half the terminal size, to test John H's theory. When I opened it
the terminal was at the same size I'd specified with your command.

grep didn't find anything in the ~/.gnome folder when searching for
geometry.

Oh well. Command line works. Thaks again.

John


"Thomas R. Detman" wrote:

> If you right click on the terminal icon on the panel,
> you should get a little sub menu with "properties" as
> one of the choices. Click "properties" and a "launcher
> properties" widget pops up. In mine the 3rd entry, command,
> contains: "gnome-terminal --geometry=88x40".
>
> I was messing with fonts recently and discovered that using
> a font other than a "fixed" width could make the gnome-terminal
> really wide. (I suppose cuz the terminal width is given in
> characters, but for proportional fonts the character width is
> not a constant, its different for each character.)
>
> Tom
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