# Mender-connect - Remote Terminal - Increase terminal height and width

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** mender-connect\
**Created:** [October 17, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272 "2023-10-17T15:06:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bssi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@bssi](https://hub.mender.io/u/bssi)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272/1 "2023-10-17T15:06:56Z")

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![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mender/original/2X/7/703fc03b8c7fc512e11eff03f530a1664ec7e8d0.png)

The Remote terminal is quite small (width 70, height 25).

I tried modifying `/etc/mender-connect.conf` and restarting `mender-connect.service`

```auto
cat /etc/mender/mender-connect.conf 
{
  "ShellCommand": "/bin/bash",
  "Terminal": {
    "Disable": false,
    "Height": 43,
    "Width": 132
  },
  "User": "user"
}

```

But the above does not seem to affect the terminal size when accessed via [mender.io](http://mender.io) - Troubleshooting - Remote terminal.

How do I go about increasing the height (rows) and width (cols) of the remote terminal? The remote system is Debian-based.

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**Author:** ![alpinemedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@alpinemedia](https://hub.mender.io/u/alpinemedia)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272/2 "2023-10-19T13:57:04Z")

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I have noticed this as well. The Troubleshoot window used to be very useful, but it is now really hard to effectively use the remote terminal because of its tiny dimensions.

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**Author:** ![TheYoctoJester](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/theyoctojester/32/1444_2.png) [@TheYoctoJester](https://hub.mender.io/u/TheYoctoJester)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272/3 "2023-10-19T14:32:52Z")

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Hi @bssi and @alpinemedia,

Thanks for the report. We have just rolled out a new release which should fix this. Please let us know if you still experience the problem now.

Greetz,  
Josef

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**Author:** ![alpinemedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@alpinemedia](https://hub.mender.io/u/alpinemedia)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272/4 "2023-10-19T15:32:55Z")

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It’s definitely better to have the console wider, as it is now, but I seem to remember the window showing more lines. Is there some way to change or configure this, as it takes up a very small amount of the available space on a desktop monitor.

Was the change here to allow upload/download without leaving the terminal session? It seems like there must be some way to accommodate that (with a flyover, perhaps) without giving up so much screen real estate to what I’m not currently doing.

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**Author:** ![alpinemedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@alpinemedia](https://hub.mender.io/u/alpinemedia)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272/5 "2023-10-19T15:39:43Z")

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Here’s what the Troubleshoot interface looks like to me:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mender/original/2X/1/13745f1405782b3b9bbe75c7f04d25796098edf1.png)

If my user goal is to have an open terminal session on a remote device, only a very small part of this screen (already limited by the fact that a screen I’ve navigated away from takes up 33% of the viewport width) is used for my goal.

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**Author:** ![bssi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@bssi](https://hub.mender.io/u/bssi)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-connect-remote-terminal-increase-terminal-height-and-width/6272/6 "2023-10-20T13:55:58Z")

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@TheYoctoJester The new release has definitely improved it. I agree with the comments from @alpinemedia .