Default geometry of gnome-terminal

[Andrea Giuliano]

CB wrote:

> How can I change the default geometry of gnome-terminal? I want it to 
> have the new default regardless of whether I start it from a launcher 
> or the 'Run Application' dialogue.
>
>
Nice question!

There was a "standard" way to do things like that, but it seems not to 
work with gnome-terminal. If you feed two lines like the following:

    xterm*geometry:  132x25
    gnome-terminal*geometry:  132x25

to the command "xrdb" (X resource database), then every new instance of 
"xterm" will be 132 chars wide, but this won't be the case for 
gnome-terminal.

I had a look around, but couldn't find a string that works in place of 
"gnome-terminal" above. It could well be that GNOME apps do not look at 
X resources DB at all!

I know, it's not very usefull...

Sorry.

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