Terminal Settings

[joeyGibson]

I'm using gnome-terminal (started by selecting New Terminal from the right-click menu in RedHat 8, but I can't find any way to tell it what size I want it. Every time I open a new terminal I have to make it larger; isn't this configurable? I see from the Edit Profile dialogs that I can change the font and colors, but there's nothing about the size of the window itself. I remember from my old X days when I wanted to start up an xterm I would pass a -geometry 120x50. I just checked, and the actual program gnome-terminal accepts a --geometry option. I tried to add that to the Exec line in the gnome-terminal.desktop file, but it doesn't seem to have any effect...

Any advice?

[GaryJones32]

you can try the .Xdefaults file

gnome-terminal*geometry: 60x20

to read the file in without restarting x or if it's not getting read at startup

xrdb .Xdefaults