diff --git a/ui/details.ui b/ui/details.ui
index 7578b3495..95aa6a4b1 100644
--- a/ui/details.ui
+++ b/ui/details.ui
@@ -5837,12 +5837,15 @@ if you know what you are doing.&lt;/small&gt;</property>
                   <object class="GtkLabel" id="console-unavailable">
                     <property name="visible">True</property>
                     <property name="can_focus">False</property>
+                    <property name="halign">center</property>
+                    <property name="valign">center</property>
                     <property name="label" translatable="yes">&lt;b&gt;The console is currently unavailable&lt;/b&gt;</property>
                     <property name="use_markup">True</property>
                     <property name="justify">center</property>
                     <property name="wrap">True</property>
                     <property name="selectable">True</property>
-                    <property name="width_chars">40</property>
+                    <property name="width_chars">60</property>
+                    <property name="max_width_chars">60</property>
                   </object>
                   <packing>
                     <property name="tab_expand">True</property>
diff --git a/virtManager/console.py b/virtManager/console.py
index dcbce62b6..f10b35a2f 100644
--- a/virtManager/console.py
+++ b/virtManager/console.py
@@ -712,9 +712,9 @@ class vmmConsolePages(vmmGObjectUI):
 
         if ginfo.is_bad_localhost():
             self._activate_unavailable_page(
-                _("Guest is on a remote host with transport '%s'\n"
-                  "but is only configured to listen locally.\n"
-                  "Connect using 'ssh' transport or change the\n"
+                _("Guest is on a remote host with transport '%s' "
+                  "but is only configured to listen locally. "
+                  "Connect using 'ssh' transport or change the"
                   "guest's listen address." % ginfo.transport))
             return