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gnome-terminal font resize (zoom in, zoom out), but adjust terminal height and width contrariwise for getting a "lock in" of window dimensions

I like the zoom keys (control-+ and control--) a lot in Ubuntu 13.04's gnome-terminal, but the when zooming in, the terminal screen gets wider, too (and the opposite when zooming out)

Is there a way to keep the window's pixel dimensions approximately constant, while zooming font-size in and out (that means, the inside terminal characters height and width dimensions have to shrink and grow accordingly)?

The aimed behaviour is partly implemented already, in case the window has reached the maximum screen size, than it does a kind of "lock in place" and works as I would like have it working in cases where the window is not yet maximized....

When I remember, in older versions of Ubuntu, I've had this behaviour already (but I am not sure any more).

Any ideas? Thank You for helping.

Solution

  • The Konsole Terminal (http://konsole.kde.org) from KDE has that feature.

    I run GNOME 3.8.4 but use konsole as my primary terminal (for that reason actually).

    Edit: Over seven years later, I run GNOME 40 and still use konsole for the zoom feature.