changing gnome-terminal default window size
Published December 8th, 2009 by Chad
I actually like the default window size for the gnome-terminal in Ubuntu now. But I used to not like it. There was a time when I would run a command, see that the output of the command wasn’t displayed nicely, resize the window manually, and rerun the command. Annoying. If you would like to change the default gnome-terminal window size just follow these steps.
- Open terminal window.
- Type:
sudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm - Find the following line:
:co#80:it#8:li#24:\ - Change to your desired window size (the number after :co is the number of columns and the number after :li is for the number of lines):
:co#200:it#8:li#50:\ - Save and close the file.
Every gnome-terminal you open now with use this new window size as the default. This will only work after you have closed all of the opened gnome-terminal windows first. Enjoy.
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