Set initial size of gnome-terminal?

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:50 PM -0400 6/29/05, Tony Nelson wrote:
>(One more time, only.)
>
>I'd like to set the initial size of gnome-terminal to, say, 120x40.  There
>doesn't seem to be a way to do this in the gnome-terminal profile or
>through gconf-editor.  To use the --geometry command line switch I'd have
>to update every place I click to open a terminal (and I don't even know
>where those places' settings are kept).

One final time, now that I've finally figured it out.  There doesn't seem
to be any user-level documentation about the gnome-terminal command line
options.  Use the Source, Luke.

To set the initial size of gnome-terminal, use the "standard" X --geometry
option, which in this case is measured in characters, not pixels.  Probably
there is a way to change the default, but instead I created a Custom
Launcher copied from the regular Terminal launcher properties, with the
command changed from "gnome-terminal" to:

    gnome-terminal --geometry 120x40

Given that the right-click menu item will be going away, a custom launcher
will be needed anyway.
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