How to change terminal settings by file configuration?

Question

I want to use a text editor like vim to edit various configuration options such as the following:

In which configuration files are options like the above stored?

Answer 1

The terminal configuration is not on a file, but in a gconf storage that cannot be edited directly. To change these settings you need to either use the graphical interface or open gconf-editor and change the values in apps/gnome-terminal.

You can also change those values via the command-line tool gconftool-2.