It surprises me this isn't a more common request. Especially with the ultrawide monitors that exist today. Do people just not use fullscreen? I like the immersion, but maybe I'm strange.
I am using Cinnamon atm. I do use i3wm as well, but lately have been using mainly Cinnamon. Anyway, here is my hacky work around.
I installed the terminal "Guake", which has a terminal always open in the background, that you can bring to the foreground with a shortcut key.
I created the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
and added:
vte-terminal {
padding: 20px 250px 20px 250px;
}
But then changed its name to gtk.css.something
.
Then wrote a small script that cd
to that containing folder, renames the file to the proper name, launches gnome-terminal
in full screen and then changes the name back to including an extension that disables it.
So, I start guake
, execute my script and I have a full screen terminal.
If I need a quick terminal just for a calculator or to check something, I use Guake. While I'm coding or doing something more involved, I use the full screen terminal.
I'll admit it's not a great solution, and I'm not 100% happy with it. Its clunky and not perfect, but it has been working for me so far.