Default geometry of gnome-terminal

[CB]

Andrea Giuliano wrote:

> 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.
>
Well, I guess I could just use xterm. But I kind of enjoy using the 
native gnome apps. It is a pain resizing every time I start it up 
though. I saw somewhere that it might be possible to configure geometry 
via gnome-terminal.desktop, but I haven't found a way of doing it.