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Initial size of gnome-terminal fixed at 80x24.

Asked by Ralph Corderoy

It seems that every new gnome-terminal window is fixed at 80x24. The --geometry command line option can be used, e.g. "--geo =100x40" but this only affects the window opened by that invocation of gnome-terminal. Altering the command executed by an icon or menu item to use --geo isn't sufficient since typing Ctrl-Shift-N or selecting the "Open Terminal" menu item results in the new window being 80x24; it doesn't copy the window executing the command. I also understand that gnome programs, including gnome-terminal, don't honour any Xt resources, so they can't be used. I've examined gnome-terminal's settings in gconf-editor and there doesn't seem to be anything to help.

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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) said : 		#1

In theory, I should be able to do

     echo -n '^[[8;40;100t'

to set the terminal to 100x40. xterm supports this and vte's vteapp.c has resize_window() which is called on the appropriate signal but it doesn't work in gnome-terminal. Neither does

    echo -n '^[[4;200;200t'

which also works in xterm to set the terminal to 200x200 pixels. Again, vte has code to support this escape sequence.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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