GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 621564
Regression: default size not honored
Last modified: 2010-06-14 20:05:04 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/593440 "I find that GNOME Terminal does not honor the default terminal size set in gconf. The settings are: /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default: default_size_columns = 132 default_size_rows = 43 But when launched a new terminal those are not respected and instead I've get an 80 columns terminal." this is on gnome-terminal 2.30.1
So? These gconf keys just aren't supported in 2.30.x.
Huh? Did this feature get removed from GNOME Terminal already? It was in GNOME 2.30 (at least as present in Ubuntu Lucid). It's no longer present in the GNOME Terminal in Ubuntu Maverick Alpha. Or are you saying that the feature was added as an Ubuntu enhancement and should not have been forwarded here? I'm completely confused.
This feature never was in any 2.30.x release. It was an experimental feature introduced during 2.29.x, but it was removed before 2.30.0 . The fact that ubuntu ships an unstable, buggy gnome-terminal release (2.29.6) with their supposedly 'stable' 10.4 release is their bug, not gnome's.
Why was this feature removed? It is insanely useful.
Because it was buggy, of course. If you need it, just use g-t 2.31.x.
It was? How so? It worked reliably for me. Again, I'm confused. :-) Will it be in GNOME 3.0, then, I presume? I expect that Maverick (version 10.10-to-be) will be updating to post 2.30 material relatively soon.
The feature was added again in 2.31.x as ChpPe already mentioned. There's a new key, use_custom_default_size, which needs to be set to true. Just install 2.31.x and check the profile preferences.