Terminal window

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/16/2010 06:34 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> On 16/04/10 21:27, Liam Proven wrote:
>>      
>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I stuffed up my earlier post by asking about Midnight Commander and not
>>>> about the Terminal I normally open it in because the Terminal and mc are
>>>> almost synonymous to me in the way I use both.
>>>>
>>>> My intended question was: how do I make the *TERMINAL* open in full
>>>> screen mode and not as a small window (and then having to enlarge it)?
>>>>          
         In Gnome it is very simple. In the upper left corner of the 
terminal there are three symbols. These are a square, a horizonal line 
and a X.  Click on the square and your terminal is full screen. If you 
click the square on anything it goes full screen, even this message.

73 Karl




>>>> Whatever I have tried so far (click-drag to full page, maximising) is
>>>> ineffective and it always opens as a small window.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know how to make it behave? (Or is another one of those
>>>> ALT-something thingies..... :-) )
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Leave it the size you want it when you shut down. It should remember
>>> and reopen that size next time.
>>>
>>>        
>> As I wrote above, this is the problem- it doesn't "remember" and always
>> opens small.
>>
>>   From what I have looked at so far, it is the only program which doesn't
>> behave normally.
>>      
> Hmm. I've not tested it recently - I don't generally leave terminals
> open - but IIRC it had to be open *when you shutdown or logged out of
> GNOME*. This is what it did a couple of years back, anyway!
>
>    
>>> Or, just press Ctrl-Alt-1 to 6 and use the real text console.
>>>
>>>        
>> Which is another thing I have a gripe about - and which is why I don't
>> use my usual ALT-CTRL-F3 in Lucid: the font which comes up is primitive,
>> something I guess to be from the EGA era of 800X640 resolution, and I am
>> used to 1920X1080. Never had this problem until I started using Ubuntu
>> (Lucid). How can the resolution in these terminals (ALT-CTRLF1-F6) be
>> made to be the same as the Desktop setting? Or is this just a temporary
>> glitch in Beta 2?
>>      
> It's normal behaviour for Linux. The virtual consoles are in VGA text
> mode, normally. Ubuntu has always done this along with all Linuxes.
>
> You can pass parameters in GRUB to set the console to a particular
> screen mode, but if you set it to the native resolution of the
> monitor, the text will get *very* small. Generally the font remains
> 9x9 pixels or whatever and you just get more columns.
>
> Enjoy the retro feel of the text mode that pretty much the entire
> computing world looked at from the1980s to the 1990s!
>
>    
>>>> I don't like water because of the things fish do in it.
>>>>
>>>>                                            W C Fields
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> If you're going to claim to quote someone, don't bowdlerise the quote!
>>> That's butchered and it's a travesty. Fields *actually* said: "I never
>>> drink water; fish fuck in it" - which is far more amusing, not to
>>> mention pithier by far.
>>>
>>>        
>> LOL!
>>
>> I only ever saw the above quote and didn't know what he actually said.
>> I'll change the wording accordingly :-)
>>      
> :¬) You'll probably get banned from some lists for the Naughty Word.
>
>    


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