diff --git a/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/RestartableTerminal.tsx b/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/RestartableTerminal.tsx
index e66f49ec..388fceff 100644
--- a/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/RestartableTerminal.tsx
+++ b/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/RestartableTerminal.tsx
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import { PassThrough } from "stream"
 import { Loading } from "@kui-shell/plugin-client-common"
 import { Arguments, Job, isResizable } from "@kui-shell/core"
 
-import Terminal from "./Terminal"
+import Terminal, { TerminalOptions } from "./Terminal"
 
 /**
  * This is our impl of the `watch` property that our Terminal
@@ -34,16 +34,17 @@ function watch(stream: PassThrough, job: Job) {
   }
 }
 
-export type Props = Pick<Arguments, "tab" | "REPL"> & {
-  /** Execute this command line */
-  cmdline: string
+export type Props = Pick<Arguments, "tab" | "REPL"> &
+  TerminalOptions & {
+    /** Execute this command line */
+    cmdline: string
 
-  /** Execute the given `cmdline` with this set of environment variables */
-  env: Record<string, string>
+    /** Execute the given `cmdline` with this set of environment variables */
+    env: Record<string, string>
 
-  /** Callback when the underlying PTY exits */
-  onExit?(code: number): void
-}
+    /** Callback when the underlying PTY exits */
+    onExit?(code: number): void
+  }
 
 type State = {
   startCount?: number
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ export default class RestartableTerminal extends React.PureComponent<Props, Stat
           className="kui--inverted-color-context flex-fill flex-layout flex-align-stretch"
           style={{ backgroundColor: "var(--color-sidecar-background-02)" }}
         >
-          <Terminal watch={watch} key={key} />
+          <Terminal watch={watch} key={key} searchable={this.props.searchable} />
         </div>
       )
     }
diff --git a/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/Terminal.tsx b/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/Terminal.tsx
index bd2f5634..49712c5f 100644
--- a/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/Terminal.tsx
+++ b/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/components/Terminal.tsx
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ type ClassName = {
   className?: string
 }
 
-interface Props extends ClassName {
+export type TerminalOptions = ClassName & {
+  /** Show search ui? [default: true] */
+  searchable?: boolean
+}
+
+type Props = TerminalOptions & {
   /** If given, the initial terminal output to render */
   initialContent?: string
 
@@ -257,7 +262,7 @@ export default class XTerm extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
       const standIn = document.querySelector("body .repl")
       if (standIn) {
         const fontTheme = getComputedStyle(standIn)
-        xterm.options.fontSize = (parseInt(fontTheme.fontSize.replace(/px$/, ""), 10) * 16) / 14
+        xterm.options.fontSize = parseInt(fontTheme.fontSize.replace(/px$/, ""), 10)
         // terminal.setOption('lineHeight', )//parseInt(fontTheme.lineHeight.replace(/px$/, ''), 10))
 
         // FIXME. not tied to theme
@@ -342,7 +347,7 @@ export default class XTerm extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
       <Toolbar className="codeflare--toolbar">
         <ToolbarContent className="flex-fill">
           <ToolbarItem variant="search-filter" className="flex-fill">
-            {this.searchInput()}
+            {this.props.searchable !== false && this.searchInput()}
           </ToolbarItem>
         </ToolbarContent>
       </Toolbar>
diff --git a/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/controller/terminal.tsx b/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/controller/terminal.tsx
index 4ac3a059..957dc91e 100644
--- a/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/controller/terminal.tsx
+++ b/plugins/plugin-codeflare/src/controller/terminal.tsx
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ export async function shell(args: Arguments) {
   }
 }
 
-export type Props = Pick<BaseProps, "tab" | "REPL" | "onExit"> & {
+export type Props = Pick<BaseProps, "tab" | "REPL" | "onExit" | "searchable"> & {
   /** Default guidebook (if not given, we will take the value from the client definition) */
   defaultGuidebook?: string
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ export class TaskTerminal extends React.PureComponent<Props, State> {
   private readonly splits = {
     horizontal: [35, 65],
     vertical1: [100], // no `this.props.belowTerminal`
-    vertical2: [50, 50], // yes
+    vertical2: [40, 60], // yes
   }
 
   private readonly tasks = [{ label: "Run a Job", argv: ["codeflare", "-p", "${SELECTED_PROFILE}"] }]