Change Gnome-terminal default startup size in Ubuntu

This post was written by admin on November 28, 2009
Posted Under: General

In ubuntu gnome the default terminal size is 80*24 which is unsuitable for widescreen-display.This tutorail shows how to change this default startup size in ubuntu gnome.
In terminal,type this command to edit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm: 

sudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm

Find out following and change the two numbers:

:co#80:it#8:li#24\

change 80 and 24 to the number as you want (here 80 is the width,24 is the height)

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    Reader Comments

    didn’t worked for me. found solution here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1583627

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    #1 
    Written By Mammon on October 13th, 2010 @ 11:05 pm

    work use lucid, thanks

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    #2 
    Written By me on July 24th, 2011 @ 8:55 am

    Worked! (Using debian 6.0.3)

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    #3 
    Written By papper on October 24th, 2011 @ 3:35 am

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