It's not max, but when Terminal is running, click on "Terminal," just to the
left of Help. One of the options is 132 x 43, which is a lot larger than the
default. It should remember what you chose.

BTW, the relevant measurement for your screen is how many pixels, not how many
inches.

That only changes it during the current session.

How about starting a command line session with CTRL-ALT-F2 (hope I got that
right this time)?



It's not technically quite the same as opening a terminal, because that runs
within the gui whereas this runs alongside the gui. So it depends on what you're
doing with the command line as to whether it's what you want. But it's certainly
full screen.



Took me ages to find out how to get back to the gui session: CTRL-ALT-F7.

CTRL-ALT-F2 at the command line takes me full screen mode but it looks like
I'm in the old DOS mode. What I would like to be able to do is have TERMINAL
open up in the maximum mode still in the GUI mode.

You can also type "exit" or control-d to return to the GUI.

Normally exit or control-d would work, but not from an alternate tty,
right? Or is this a new feature in 10.X?

What exit and CTRL-d do is log you out. You are then in the back-and-white
command line mode waiting for a log-in.

I don't know why it isn't working for you. I just tried it and it
worked. It works for me on Konsole, no matter how you open it. What is
an "alternate tty"?

If you press ctrl-alt-f1 through f6, you will find that you have six
'alternate' non-gui terminals, or ttys (teletypes). To get back to the
gui, press alt-f7 (the ctrl key is only needed when switching from the
gui into the first tty, alt-fx is fine thereafter).

I think if you go into your "edit menu" or select properties on the
terminal shortcut, go into the command box and add "--full-screen"
(without the quotes) it will open in full screen. Alternately, if you
at "--geometry 1200x700" (or whatever resolution you want) you can
specify it that way. I think both of those would work.

tty is the abbreviation for "teletype" (or teletype terminal). I
believe it got its name from early unix use where everything was done
in a text terminal.

In Ubuntu, there are seven of these (accessible through holding down
alt+cntrl and pushing F1-F7) alternate shells. The X (our graphical
environment) runs in tty 7. You can try it now if you like, just end
with cntrl+alt F7 to get back to your desk top. Each tty will bring
to to a login for a linux shell that basically looks identical to what
you would see if you were running a headless server (i.e., without
x-org and gnome). I don't have all the details or history on it, so
maybe someone can chime in with the full description.

For me, going to an alternate tty is very useful when my lockscreen
freezes after a suspended state. I can switch to a different tty, run
"ps -A | grep gnome" to find the process number for for the
screensaver and kill it so I can get back into my desktop. Otherwise
though, I don't really know what they are there for.