Need Terminal to initially set at Zoom In

[AZgl1800]

I have a 17 inch screen on my laptop, with Hi-Def resolution.

when I start Terminal, the fonts are so small that I can barely see them.
I have already increased the font size as far as it can go w/o forcing the lines to go past the right edge of the screen.

I have looked in Preferences, and there isn't any mention of "Startup at Zoom level x "

Anyone know a way to open at Zoom In once?

[smurphos]

You should be able to adapt this answer to gnome-terminal.

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[AZgl1800]

You should be able to adapt this answer to gnome-terminal.

viewtopic.php?p=1795790#p1795790

Thanks for where to go, I tried both of these settings and both were ignored by Terminal

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=1.5 --geometry=120x35+200+150

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=2.0

[smurphos]

Hi, to check what you have done please run the commands below and report the output.

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stat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal

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cat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal

From a working mod - note the Access permissions are (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)
Also note the extra parameter I've put in after some testing to make sure other arguments passed are used.

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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ stat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
  File: /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
  Size: 45        	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 10302h/66306d	Inode: 657080      Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2020-04-20 07:42:24.446562452 +0100
Modify: 2020-04-20 07:42:24.330567390 +0100
Change: 2020-04-20 07:42:24.330567390 +0100
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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=1.5 "$@"

[JosephM]

Running

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gnome-terminal --zoom=2.0

works fine. But the screenshot you are showing is nemo-terminal. That is not the same as running the gnome-terminal application. So I'm not sure any of this is relevant if that is what you are trying to do.

[AZgl1800]

Hi, to check what you have done please run the commands below and report the output.

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stat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal

&

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cat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal

From a working mod - note the Access permissions are (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)
Also note the extra parameter I've put in after some testing to make sure other arguments passed are used.

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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ stat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
  File: /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
  Size: 45        	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 10302h/66306d	Inode: 657080      Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2020-04-20 07:42:24.446562452 +0100
Modify: 2020-04-20 07:42:24.330567390 +0100
Change: 2020-04-20 07:42:24.330567390 +0100
 Birth: -
steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=1.5 "$@"

this is what I got:

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~$ stat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
  File: /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
  Size: 45        	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 802h/2050d	Inode: 797714      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2020-04-19 07:57:32.872301881 -0500
Modify: 2020-04-19 07:54:07.566952052 -0500
Change: 2020-04-19 07:54:07.570951993 -0500
 Birth: -

And, I am using Terminal from the Panel, and I always Zoom In once before I use it.

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$ cat /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=2.0

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From your next post:

Running

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gnome-terminal --zoom=2.0

works fine. But the screenshot you are showing is nemo-terminal. That is not the same as running the gnome-terminal application. So I'm not sure any of this is relevant if that is what you are trying to do.

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It is the same Terminal app that I get if I use Control-Alt-T


I am not a coder/programmer.... I keep a lot of notes and refer back to previous " lessons learned "

[smurphos]

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Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)

You need to make the file executable.

To fix via terminal

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sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/gnome-terminal

Also do revise the command in the script from

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=2.0

to

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --zoom=2.0 "$@"