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PlasmaBinturong
Asked: 2016-12-13 14:26:49 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 16.04 font aspect of gnome-terminal: how to change the height/width ratio?

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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 from 14.04, and I use Unity.

The gnome-terminal seem to have lost options to control its appearance and it's very disappointing... :(

For example, I checked with screenshots from the previous version, the font appears wider: indeed for fontsize 11, I could fit 93 characters on a row using a half screen, whereas only 80 now...). I am pretty sure there was an option before to control the aspect ratio of the font, and personally I prefer to have more characters on a line...

Has it disappeared forever? Is there a workaround?

Also, now, there is the scrollbar on the right that does not disappear. How to get rid of it?

16.04

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    Oh, now I remember how I changed the font aspect ratio in previous Ubuntu versions. I used unity-tweak-tool, exactly as described in this answer (Under Appearance, Fonts, Text scaling factor). Then later I decided unity-tweak-tool was kind of a bad dangerous program and I uninstalled it, that's why I forgot I guess.

    I'll try to find if there is a way to do the same without unity-tweak-tool and edit later this answer if so.

    For the scrollbar, as @doug said in its comment, it's in Edit > Preferences under the "Scrolling" tab.

    [EDIT: How to change the default font with dconf-editor]

    Without unity-tweak-tools, dconf-editor does the job, you just need to know where to find the parameter:

    1. Run dconf-editor in a terminal.
    2. navigate to : org > gnome > desktop > interface
    3. Edit the fields monospace-font-name and text-scaling-factor. In my case, I set to 'Ubuntu Mono 12' and 0.9 respectively.
    4. close dconf-editor
    5. in gnome-terminal, open the preferences of your profile, and choose to use the default font.
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