Right! Anytime I need something like this, usually go to /usr/local/bin and replace the desired command with the one of my own.

Then make a new profile in your gnome-terminal. Change which command you start the terminal with to in that profile. Start new terminals with this profile.

Change alias to same command in your ~/.bashrc

(Or you can make this new profile the default in gnome-terminal after you have tested it a while)

You could possible change it in gnome settings, but I have no time to look that up for you.

PS: This is an Gnome issue, not OpenSolaris DS:

Please type this in a terminal:
gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-termninal.desktop
(Or however you get to root in open solaris)
Scroll all the way to the bottom.
Look for the line:
Exec=gnome-terminal
And replace it with:
Exec=gnome-terminal --geometry 77x48
Save, close, and then open any gnome-terminal. It will have the new geometry.

I know it works becase it just tested it myself.

gksudo isn't implemented under Solaris as sudo isn't part of it.

You are right changing that Exec entry in the /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop file will affect terminals launched from the menu. That won't change those open from the desktop though.

Yeah i wasn't sure but I included the info just in case.
Big deal?! Just right click it and change it to have the new geometry? Oh, like that's difficult :P

Not sure about what you suggest with right clicking.

I was referring to the terminal window launched by right clicking on the desktop and choosing the "Open Terminal" (or "Open in Terminal") menu entry. That one ignores the /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop setting.

Have you tried that change of profile and then making that profile your new default profile?
Shold work, as looking though gconf settings for your account for gnome-terminal also should work. There is a graphical and a terminal tool for changing those.

Can you tell where in the gnome-terminal profile you can set its geometry ? I don't find any place to do it.

Sigh... Look at answer #17 in this thread...

Precisely. I was asking about that setting that I doesn't find. Please clarify.

Hello jillagre
I understand you want to customize the geometry of the gnome-terminal window you get when you right click on the desktop and choose "Open terminal" or on a nautilus (non Side Pane) folder and choose "Open in terminal".

Regards "Open in terminal" only, the facility is provided by the open-in-terminal package and, AFAIK, there is no way to get it to do what you want.

You can do what you want (and a lot more) using the nautilus-actions package. First exploration of nautilus-actions suggests it is a very flexible tool, easily allowing a superset of open-in-terminal's facilities and thus obsoleting open-in-terminal except for very basic functionality or restricted environments.

Here's how to use nautilus-actions to set up a "Open root terminal here" in the same place as "Open in terminal" (I find Microsoft's wording more comprehensible than Gnome's; you don't open the directory in the terminal, you start the terminal in the directory). "Open terminal here" would be similar, without "-x su -" in the parameters.

root# aptitude install nautilus-actions

Applications→System→Preferences→Nautilus Actions Configuration

Add

Menu item and action

Label: Open root terminal here
Tooltip: <empty>
Icon: <your choice; not required if icons not displayed>
Path: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Parameters: --geometry=1028x768+0+0 --working-directory=%d -x su -

Conditions

Only folders: selected

The new menu item was not visible until logging off and back on (restarting nautilus). Same for configuration adjustments.

Anybody know if nautilus-actions can add context menu items to nautilus' Side Pane tree view folders -- and, if so, how?

Best

Charles

I know this thread has been all over the place but.... the easiest way to do this is edit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm and look for

:co#115:it#8:li#36:\

( well dont pay attention to the numbers I put those there) - put 77 after "co#" and put 48 after "li#" - every terminal you open anywhere will default to this size

Sorry if I did not understand or missed something in the thread...but this has always worked best for me -

Edit: O wow this is an old thread...sorry for resurrecting it

Hello ADxD_7 Thanks for the info. Just tried it but didn't work for xterm or gnome-terminal. Some re-initialisation required? Which system does it work on for you?

Best

Charles

Well the only thing you should have to do is exit all gnome-terminal processes - and it should change it - I forgot that it only works for gnome-terminal not for xterm...sorry - easiest way to make it so xterm opens that size is put

alias xterm='xterm -geometry 77x48'

into your .bashrc or .cshrc or wherever is applicable for you

Hello ADxD_7 Thanks. It worked, not after exiting all terminals but after rebooting (might have worked after logoff/on but was rebooting anyway). This may be the only way of changing the terminal provided by the open-in-terminal package.

Kind of weird that a file called xterm should affect gnome-terminal -- and not xterm!!! Nobody ever said Linux was consistent

Best

Charles