Ok....what is this a joke!?

[RiseAgainst]

Could someone please tell me why my Terminal looks like this....and what can I do to fix it. I tried repairing permissions. Its real annoying.

[mnkeybsness]

can you go into the Terminal Menu > Window Settings > Window and see how many rows and columns are shown? mine defaults to 80x24

[RiseAgainst]

Mine says 511 x 5 and when i change them they just change back. Whats the deal?

[RiseAgainst]

Is there a way that i can delete the terminal and reinstall it?

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by RiseAgainst
Is there a way that i can delete the terminal and reinstall it? Yes.

[mnkeybsness]

Originally posted by MisterMe
Yes.

yeah i definitely wouldn't do that
...

instead...
go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.Terminal.plist

this should reset everything to defaults and work correctly.

[MoparShaha]

Originally posted by MisterMe
Yes. That's very helpful.

Change the dimensions by going to the Terminal Menu > Window Settings. Click on the pull down window in the Terminal Inspector, and choose "Window". Now you can resize using the pixel values. Now, click at the bottom on "Use Settings as Default". Now, quite Terminal and relaunch. It should be visible now. If not, you can repeat the procedure above, and then before quitting, go to File > Save. When the dialog box pops up, click "Open this file when Terminal starts up". Then click Save. Hopefully that'll do the trick for sure.

[RiseAgainst]

Tried everything you guys mentioned and still nothing. Well, im stumped.

[abhishekit]

Originally posted by RiseAgainst
Tried everything you guys mentioned and still nothing. Well, im stumped.
As I was playing with my terminal to see if I get your problem, I think I stumbled upon the solution. When you change the no. of rows and columns, in the windows settings, then press tab so that the cursor comes below into the box named 'title'. Only then hit 'Use as default', and then close that window. If you hit'Use as default' while the cursor is still in rows or columns box, it will only change it temporarily.
NOTE. write stty -a to see your terminal settings after you change it.
write stty_ -g > $HOME/.stty to save the new settings.
Although following the NOTE was not correcting the problem for me.
Anyways, the first paragraph should solve it.
cheers

[jeremy.king]

Apparently you are not the only one.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54299&highlight=terminal+window