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I am using GNOME 3.2 and my problem is that while working on terminal my prompt is usually at the bottom of screen. As GNOME notifications keep popping up on new mail, chat or song change, it becomes hard to work at the lowest line of terminal.

Is there any way I can set prompt location few lines above the last line in the Terminal, so that I don't have to run clear every time?

Rather than attempt to prevent some number of lines near the bottom of the Terminal window from being used, you might want to instead simply resize the Terminal window to whatever best serves your needs. You can put your mouse pointer over the lower-right corner of the Terminal window (or, really, over anywhere on the lower edge) until the mouse pointer changes to a different icon representing resizing. Then click and hold, and drag the border upwards until the window is however small you want it.

To make it so that all Terminals will be of a custom height (and, if you like, width) when you start them, go to Edit > Profile Preferences in Terminal. A window with the title Editing Profile "Default" will come up (or it will give a different profile name, if you're using a named custom profile). In the General tab (which should already be showing), check the box labeled Use custom default terminal size. Then you can decrease the number of rows from 24 to whatever you like.

If your Terminal window is maximized, so that it takes up the whole screen and cannot be resized, then you should restore it to normal size (using the buttons on the window decorator, i.e., on the bar at the top of the window). Then you can either move it to a different location on the screen so that it is more convenient, or resize it as described above.

I use text editors a lot so want my terminal to be full screen height but I also don't want the prompt at the bottom.

I recently figured out an approach using the terminal's support for a character that goes "up" and bash's support to run a command before printing the primary prompt. I hope it works for other people. You'd put the following in your .bash_profile (merging with other code you have setting the prompt (PS1) ).

function proml {

local UP="33[F"

local CL="33[0J"

PS1="$ "

export PROMPT_COMMAND_SPACE="nnnnnnnnnnn$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$UP$CL"

PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -ne "$PROMPT_COMMAND_SPACE""

}

proml

Put N newlines (n) and N $UP variables to get N blank lines at the bottom.

And then keep this stuff in your .bashrc or .bash_profile.

You could try using guake, at least as a work-around. It has an option, "Main Window Height" which allows you to vertically adjust how much screen is utilized. This way you can prevent the prompt from ever being under your notifications. The option stays saved, you won't need to resize everytime.

• Install guake via the terminal with sudo apt-get install guake
  


• Then type guake-prefs to bring up the preferences dialogue.


• Find the "Main Window Height" scrollbar at the bottom of the menu and adjust to suit your needs.