How to prevent new terminals from shrinking?

[tarazed]

I am a complete newbie as far as KDE is concerned having used GNOME for the last 17 years
and would appreciate a few pointers to help with the transition to KDE if it should ever
become necessary. If a KDE session can be configured to behave like GNOME Classic then
that would do.

So far I have managed fix a terminal icon on-screen and to to place several copies of
gnome-terminal on the workspaces and have them persist between sessions. One annoying
feature is the way the terminal is minimized on screen as soon as it is raised which
would appear to be a KDE feature hence not controllable via gnome-terminal options. Is
there any kind of general configuration tool which could prevent this? I have poked about in the menus without any success.

[doktor5000]

Can you please post at least screenshots before and after, what you do in between and what is expected outcome?

[tarazed]

The before and after images were actually taken in reverse order; i.e. the before shot was staged. Both images one quarter size.

Before: double-clicked on the Terminal icon on the left side of the desktop.
After: the new terminal appeared at upper right as possibly an 80x25 xterm which immediately started to shrink to the size you see.
The other gnome-terminal, labelled Terminal <2> was the result of stretching a similar minimized terminal earlier.

Under GNOME a terminal comes up at some standard size, probably 80x25, and stays like that unless the user chooses to alter it. In other words that is what I expected of KDE.
[img]/home/lcl/before.png[/img]

[img]/home/lcl/after.png[/img]

[tarazed]

So how do you attach an image?

[doktor5000]

Below the forum editor -> there's a tab Upload attachment, press the search button and select a file, press Add the file.

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When uploaded, below the attach press Place inline button.

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If you want to use the Img tag above the forum editor as you did, you can only link to Images which are available online somewhere.

[tarazed]

Thanks for that. My apologies - had never looked beyond the submit button. Here goes:

Oops, need to shrink them some more:

Earlier state

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Later state

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[doktor5000]

Okay and what exactly did you do between first and second screenshot?
What do you mean by "raised" in the first post?

[tarazed]

I double-clicked on the terminal icon at the left, as indicated before. Using raised loosely to mean bringing the window up on the desktop.

[doktor5000]

So it doesn't shrink, but the second terminal you started starts with a small window size.

Right-click on the window bar -> special settings for this program -> size&position -> check size -> dropdown -> apply on initialisation (or force if that's not enough) and set the size you want for windows of that program.

[tarazed]

Thanks doktor5000; I shall try that. To make it clearer. The first terminal started out just like the smaller one and had to be resized by dragging the corner. The second one appears at about 80x24 momentarily and then shrinks first in one axis and then the other over a period of a couple of seconds. There is an option in the gnome-terminal internal menus to set the default size but that does not work obviously because KDE is in control, so it has to be done by your method.

Will mark this as solved if all goes well. That leaves just the problem of the identical icons on the panel....