Gnome - Terminal Maximise Problem

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 8 22:13:41 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 23:59 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 09:13 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I would increase the terminal size by typing ctrl-+ which
> > will allow you to increase its size in steps instead of taking up the
> > whole screen. Reduce size by typing ctrl - '-'. 
> 
> Neat trick, but that increases the font sizing at the same time.  You
> lose the main advantage of a bigger window - being able to see more text
> within the window.
That is true. To increase the size in your sense you just grab a corner
with your cursor and pull. Maximizing a window so it takes up the whole
screen has the problem of not leaving space for any other window on the
desktop, which to me makes this action pretty unusable
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