The window bounds are a list of coordinates {left, top, right, bottom}. You probably intended "400" to be the width, but it's the position of the right edge of the window and 400 is to the left of 1105, so you get a minimum width window. Change 400 to 1105 plus the desired width, e.g., 1505.
But before you pursue this further, Terminal has a better solution for this: Window Groups. If you set up a group of windows and save them as a Window Group, each time you open that group it will create windows with the same layout and appearance.
Window > Save Windows as Group…
You can even tell Terminal to open a selected window group at startup:
Terminal > Preferences > Startup > On startup, open: > Window group:
(As a shortcut, when creating a window group there's a checkbox for making it the startup group.)
To automatically run particular commands in those windows, you can create custom settings profiles and specify the command with
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > [profile] > Shell > Startup > Run command:
then create each window with the appropriate profile.
Going further, in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 you can have window groups automatically restore commands without creating custom profiles, by creating the terminals using
Shell > New Command
instead of running the command inside the terminal shell. When creating the window group, you can check "Restore all commands". (By default, it will restore a small set of "safe" commands, but you must explicitly tell it if you want it to re-run all commands when opening the group.)
Moreover, Lion Terminal supports Resume and will automatically restore all your windows each time you open Terminal. It will even restore "safe" commands for terminals created with New Command.
I did discover a non-ideal solution when I was researching for this question:
If I close all the windows I can then use the Window > Open Window Group command to get back to my nice windows, though the history is emptied out of each window.
I hope someone else is able to answer this question better.
Best Answer
Scaled-down values need to be given to
osascript
. You'll need to experiment as CJK said.In my case, I want a size that is the same proportions as HD (
1920x1080
), but maximize my screen width. I made my Terminal the full width and height of the screen (manually, not with the "full screen" button because I want to preserve the menu bar). Then ran:So, it looks like the menu bar is
23
pixels, and the width used byosascript
is1440
.1440
width in an HD ratio is1440x810
.So, the command for me that results in a max width window that is HD ratio is:
The
833
is810 + 23
to account for the menu bar height.