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I'm running Fedora 21 which comes with gnome 3.14. In older versions, when I resized a terminal, a little box would appear that showed the dimensions of the terminal (in columns and rows, not pixels; defaulting to 24x80). Now when I resize the terminal, this box doesn't appear. How do I re-enable this feature, or otherwise determine the number of rows and columns in my terminal?

drs
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    IIRC they removed the tooltip and then re-added it... works fine with gnome-terminal 3.14.2 but only when using the mouse to resize the window. – don_crissti Feb 18 '15 at 14:20
  • @don_crissti, that's a shame. I've removed window decorations from my terminals and rely on a keyboard shortcut to resize them; I can't resize them with a mouse. – drs Feb 18 '15 at 14:23
  • FWIW, it's fixed in 3.16 (works with both keyboard and mouse). – don_crissti May 10 '15 at 23:58

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From some quick searching, it doesn't look like there is a way to get gnome to display the dimensions.

You can run these commands inside the terminal window to get the lines and columns respectively:

tput lines
tput cols
hornj
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