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Sorry for being off-topic but what I dislike the most about Gnome Terminal is that it opens a small window by default (like 1/4 of my screen size) and even if you resize it, it doesn't remember the size after restart. It turns out you need to go to settings and manually specify how many columns and rows do you want.

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That behavior is pretty common with many terminals. Off the top of my head, I know the default macOS Terminal and Windows Terminal both behave like that where you need to change the default dimensions in the settings.

I personally prefer having the dimensions set to a default size and then resizing specific windows that require more space. But it should at least be an option to have it remember resizes.

You can change that in the settings.

Hamburger menu > Preferences > The name of your profile (mine is just called "Unnamed").

Changing the "initial terminal size" will do what you want. I have mine set to 132x43.

I often have many terminals open of various sizes. It's not clear what size would be the correct one to remember.

Therefore, I don't want it to try. It's fine for software to try to be smart if there's high confidence it knows what you want. Otherwise, it's yet another case, "Look, I automatically messed things up for you. You're welcome."

Console, the newer gnome terminal remembers the window size.

IIRC, this was a feature from CMD.EXE

It is just old school terminal behavior. Even xterm iirc 25 lines 80 columns. That natural screen size. See also natural terminal colors green letter with black background.

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