On widescreen LCDs, gnome-terminal looks so tiny. Aren’t you sick of resizing it everytime you do a ls -al ?
Important Note for Ubuntu users:
Since Ubuntu Lucid, using Gnome-terminal, you can easily change the default size by going to the menu: Profile > Preference > Default Size.
For Xubuntu users (xfce4-terminal):
- Edit ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc
leafpad ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc
- Change the value for MiscDefaultGeometry=. For example
MiscDefaultGeometry=120x40
- Save, close all terminals and open a new terminal.
For Ubuntu, the old way and system-wide:
Please note that this modification will affect the whole system and also other users on the system. There are possibilities that the file is overwritten during an xterm update which will reset the changes you made.
- 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!
Very nice. Thanks ^^
Thanks! And wow, no wonder I never found that – xterm stuff is black magic..
neat, I used to create a shortcut with geometry param. to set my favorite size, but this just seems the right approach to it !
Very simple and effective tip! Thanks for posting it!
This is Excellent, I used the geometry option in the launcher, but Gnome do was obviously not working!!!
Now IT DOES! Thanks.
Sweet. That saved me around 2minutes per day and much more annoyance.
Thanks for the tip. Worked like a charm.
This is what I was looking for…I looked in gnomes site, and ubuntu. I even hosed my terminal in the process, had to log in as root to fix. This is the only thing that worked, thx.
Thanks 4 the tip 😉
thanks man. worked perfectly 🙂
Thank you! Works perfectly in Ubuntu 9.10
Thanks. This works, but it’s really annoying that gnome-terminal doesn’t have a separate per-user per-profile setting for a default size.
It should also be noted for users that do this, this change is system-wide and could possibly be reverted in future upgrades…
Thanks Darryl, I will update the post to notify viewers of this.
Thanks for great tip!
One question : Could I change some file in my ~/ ?, instead of systemwide.
Check out the profile preferences of the recently released gnome-terminal 2.30. You’ll love it. 😉
@Malt:
I checked and couldn’t really find anything relevant. You need to look for Termcap user-settings.
@drooop
Thanks for tip, I looked at the release notes but could not find anything, I’ll probably have to look more in depth.
thanks for the tip!
And, if readers are curious, you really do have to close every open terminal
window before the change takes effect! (On SUSE using gnome-terminal, anyway)
(Oddly enough, it would seem that xterm isn’t affected by this, again on my SUSE 2.6.34 system)
Thanks man this works like a charm and scratched my itch.
Not sure why, but for me this did not work. I am using XUBUNTU.
Some one can pls help me
manoj,
Edit ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc
And change the value for MiscDefaultGeometry.
For example:
MiscDefaultGeometry=120×50
Hi, would be grateful for some advice. I am a linux noob and can’t seem to get this to work.
I edited the /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm file and closed the terminal (even used killall gnome-terminal to be sure), but all later terminals are opening at 80×24
Any ideas?
Thanks
Thanks a lot Arnaud Soyez..I had posted this some where in march and had totally forgotten this. Today i felt like solving the issue and guess what, ur response was ready.
Thanks again. This issue is solved for me
Richard,
Give it a try with Arnaud Soyez’s solution. Hope it works..
For ur quick reference:
Edit ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc
And change the value for MiscDefaultGeometry.
For example:
MiscDefaultGeometry=120×50
You can also simply edit the terminal shortcut and add the command “–geometry=XXxYY”
gnome-terminal –geometry=80×36
Thank you very much!!! I don’t understand why Ubuntu skipped the size-configuration in the terminal options…