gnome-terminal doesn't remember size or location

Thanks for your report.

I can't locate an upstream bug to verify this, but I think this is the intended behaviour in gnome-terminal. You may want to have multiple terminals open at the same time; when you relaunch gnome-terminal while another instance is running, if there isn't enough screen space, the subsequently opened windows will be cascaded, and if there is, they'll be tiled. This is the default Metacity behaviour, which gnome-terminal seemingly doesn't want to interfere with. If it were to remember the exact location, the new windows would be placed on top of the existing one, and obscure it.

Please file a bug in the upstream bug tracker if you think the behaviour should change. I'm leaving status set to "Needs Info" until we get an official (or at least better informed) word that confirms this is a feature.

As far as I know, it's not a feature of gnome terminal to automatically safe location and geometry. If you need a standard geometry please use its command line options, e.g.:

gnome-terminal --geometry=104x32
gnome-terminal --hide-menubar --geometry=104x32 --disable-factory

You can add more settings to the command line. See documentation for this.

I will reject this report. If you have somewhere (documenation?) proof that the feature of automatic saving for this properties exists and should work, feel free to reopen this bug report at any time.

There should be an option in preferences to specify a preferred startup size. Asking the end user to dig through configuration editor or similar programs to edit this is contrary to the goal of ease of use.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-255048.html

Every time i open gnome-terminal i resize it. I hate this.
Is it so difficult to remember previously opened size and state (window/full screen) ?
I don't want edit config or use command line options - it is not the right way.

Please note: gnome-terminal is not an Ubuntu program. So feature wishes should go to the Gnome project directly. So commenting this bug report won't have impact on the Gnome project.

Thanks for your comments.

I apologize for reporting on such an old bug, but I too am having this problem. Until after an update a few days ago, gnome-terminal would always remember the custom size without having to use any command line options. Now however it defaults to the bottom-left corner of the screen at a resolution of 80x24 every time.