On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, JohnS wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 22:18 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > >> Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want >> and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal has a zoom-in and zoom-out >> function that's close to what I want but it's not "infinite" and works by >> repeatedly hitting hotkeys, not by changing the window size. > > I don't know about resizing the text but this "gnome-terminal > --geometry=80x50" will give you a window that size 80 char wide and 50 > lines. You would need a wrapper script or a Launcher from the gnome > desktop. > > Ncurses want scale with that but you can Zoom in on it for sure. ncurses catches SIGWINCH; applications using ncurses may/may not adjust their layout accordingly. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net