Re: Reconfigure gnome-terminal in SLES 10

Thanks, Kevin...

Those are all things I checked before I wrote to this newsgroup. To wit:
As I said before, running "gnome-terminal --geometry=110x40" works fine (and. yes,the window is much larger on my 20" screen), I just want it to open that way. (And, yes, I'm aware this is an option passed to and defined in X-Windows.)

As I wrote before, I grep'd every instance of "gnome-terminal" and changed it to the text above. I was hoping someone in the 'group might have some practical experience with "freedesktop" standards and could point me to the place where Gnome has placed the configuration information so I can change it.

--Carol Anne

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:10:55 GMT
Carol Anne <caogdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a new SLES 10, and a huge display. I want to change the
default geometry of the gnome-terminal to 110x40, but I can't find
where to do that.

I've grep'd every instance of "gnome-terminal" in text files and
changed it to read "gnome-terminal --geometry=110x40" but nothing
changes.

That works on SUSE 10.0 just fine (I don't have SLES installed). The
'--geometry' command line parameter is actually an X Window System
parameter and works with most programs. It works with and without the
equal sign. Is your screen large enough for 110 columns by 40 lines?
Have you tried 80x25 to see if there is a change?

You can also do the following in a terminal:

gnome-terminal --help

with most programs to get a list of command line options.

Is there any way to reconfigure gnome-terminal for the geometry I
want, either for the individual user, or globally?

Since I rarely run GNOME, I can't say for sure. For individual users,
the standard Linux practice is to have a hidden directory in your home
dir for local settings. In your home dir do:

ls -a

and look at the directories beginning with a dot, like '.gnome' and
such. Browsing through there might show you some text configuration
files you can edit . . .

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