Living in the terminal as much as I do, one thing that’s frustrated me with GNOME Console is it’s insistance on remembering the last window size. While this behavior might be desirable for most apps, I find I treat terminals differently—I expect them to start at a standard size that’s good enough for most actions and only expand them if the task requires it.

Thankfully, it turns out Console does support disabling window size restoration through a hidden setting:

gsettings set org.gnome.Console restore-window-size false

With this, windows will open at 80x24 by default, making everything just a little calmer and more predictable.