diff --git a/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts b/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts
index 3a0ed82d..16011f99 100644
--- a/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts
+++ b/tabby-terminal/src/frontends/xtermFrontend.ts
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ export class XTermFrontend extends Frontend {
         const scale = Math.pow(1.1, this.zoom)
         this.xterm.options.fontSize = this.configuredFontSize * scale
         // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/restrict-plus-operands
-        this.xterm.options.lineHeight = Math.max(1, (this.configuredFontSize + this.configuredLinePadding * 2) / this.configuredFontSize * scale)
+        this.xterm.options.lineHeight = Math.max(1, (this.configuredFontSize + this.configuredLinePadding * 2) / this.configuredFontSize)
         this.resizeHandler()
     }