Terminal Problem under 10.3.2

[sandro]

Everytime I open Terminal, I get this tiny little window andthere's no way to expand it, does anyone know how to fix this problem? I'm attaching a picture of what it looks like, this happened right after I upgraded to Panther - Thanks

 

[myrt]

If I had to take a guess I'd guess that some how your window dimensions are jacked. Go to Terminal > Window Settings > Window... numbers should default at 80 columns and 24 rows. If that doesn't fix it, toss the prefs and maybe you'll get lucky.

 

[sandro]

Thanks, I tried what you said, but nothing fixed it.
Thanks anyways

 

[Westside guy]

Hi,

1) Have you tried changing your default font in the terminal preferences? I'm wondering if the window is trying to size to 80x24 for a font that's invalid/broken for some reason.

2) This won't directly solve your problem, but why don't you give iTerm a try and see if it works as expected (that is, make sure the problem is isolated to terminal.app and not some wider font issue).

http://iterm.sourceforge.net/

iTerm is actually what I use instead of terminal, mainly because I like having multiple tabbed terminals all in one window.

 

[Ugimom]

I had the same problem. Have you disabled Monaco in Font Book?
Re-enabling it immediately fixed the "window is nothing more than a close button" problem for me.

 

[sandro]

I repaired permissions and now it works fine, which is funny, since I repaired permissions last week but didn't do anything then. oh well, it works now!
thanks guys for all your help and suggestions