[Wylug-help] Setting the size of the gnome-terminal

[Dave Fisher]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:04:32PM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> On Sunday 13 August 2006 13:56, Dave Fisher wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:17:27PM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > > anyone know how to set the size of the gnome-terminal on opening.
> > >
> > > I'm using ubuntu.
> >
> > Try
> >
> >   gnome-terminal --geometry=80x45
> >
> > Distro shouldn't matter.
> >
> > I'd expect that you could include the option in your default
> > gnome-terminal settings to make it work automatically.
> 
> 
>  Thanks, this works but it also seems to stop the window manager placing the 
> terminal, is there anyway to do this but still allow the window manager to 
> the continue placing the terminal?

I don't know off the top of my head, but I can imagine problems with it,
i.e. the default gnome window manager (metacity) settings don't give you many
choices about window placement.

   gconf-editor > apps > metacity > general 

might give you some more options.


Dave