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Any way to set default size for terminal in FC4?

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Felecha

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Me again.

I'm used to Windows being able to remember the last size of a non-maximized window. Even command windows. Lots of the windows I find in FC4 can do that.

The good old terminal window, though, always opens way smaller than I like. I have a nice big monitor and it would be nice to have it open big.

Is there any setting or preference where I can control that?

I was glad to find I can set the colors. Black on white is hard on my old eyes.
 
AFAIK the default window manager doesn't have any window memory, so unless the terminal will remember it's sizes on it's own you're out of luck.
 
Damn.

But I can handle it!

So there are other window managers that do keep memory of certain application windows? I've always wondered how that was done. In Windows most apps work that way. DOS windows can be told to keep a size the next time they appear.

So there's a player backstage there whose job is to do that?
 
In Windows most apps maintain their own window memory, explorer doesn't do it for them.

E16 will do it, I think fluxbox will too. But I don't think those WMs work well with Gnome. You'll be able run Gnome apps just fine, you just won't get the full desktop.
 
If I'm not mistaken, you're using gnome which uses metacity as a window manager (someone confirm this?) so that's what to look for if you want to dig 🙂
 
Well, dog my cats! The launcher button on the (What do you call the "taskbar" in Linux?) has a Right-Click/Properties window. In there is the Command that is called. I found a website

GNOME Terminal User's Guide

that has command options for gnome-terminal, one of them is

--geometry ***x***

So I edit that command to

gnome-terminal --geometry 120x50

and it's just what I want! I dragged the corner of a window so it shows the geometry as you drag, and when I got what I wanted I used that geometry,

Anyone old enough to recognize "dog my cats"?
 
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