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

Jaxån

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:

lifestream

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.

jlliagre

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.

lifestream

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

jlliagre

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.

Jaxån

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.

jlliagre

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

Jaxån

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

jlliagre

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

catkin

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

ADxD_7

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

catkin

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

ADxD_7

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

catkin

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