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NAME

6       Terminal - A Terminal emulator for X
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SYNOPSIS

9       Terminal
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DESCRIPTION

12       This manual page documents briefly the Terminal application.
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14       Terminal  is what is known as an X terminal emulator, often referred to
15       as terminal or shell. It provides an equivalent to  the  old  fashioned
16       text  screen  on  your desktop, but on which can easily the screen with
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19       Terminal emulates the xterm application developed by the X  Consortium.
20       In  turn,  the  xterm  applications emulates the DEC VT102 terminal and
21       also supports the DEC VT220 escape sequences. An escape sequence  is  a
22       series  of characters that with the Esc character. Terminal accepts all
23       of the escape sequences that the VT102  and  VT220  terminals  use  for
24       functions such as to position the cursor and to clear the screen.
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OPTIONS

29       Terminal takes the following command line options:
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31       --help Print a help screen and exit.
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ENVIRONMENT

39       Terminal's  behaviour  is  affected  by the following environment vari‐
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43              Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If
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47              Set  of  preference  ordered  base directories relative to which
48              configuration files  should  be  searched  in  addition  to  the
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53              Specifies the root for all user-specific  data  files.  If  this
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57              Set  of  preference  ordered  base directories relative to which
58              data files should be searched in addition to the  $XDG_DATA_HOME
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65       Terminal reads its configuration from the files $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/Termi‐
66       nal/terminalrc.   Terminal  creates the main menubar and the popup menu
67       from the files  $XDG_DATA_DIRS/Terminal/Terminal.ui  and  the  toolbars
68       layout from the files $XDG_DATA_DIRS/Terminal/Terminal-toolbars.ui.  If
69       you customize the toolbars,  the  new  toolbars  layout  is  stored  to
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AUTHOR

75       The Terminal software and this manual page was written for os-cillation
76       by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.
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REPORTING BUGS

81       Report bugs to http://bugs.os-cillation.com/.
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86       Copyright © 2003-2005 os-cillation.
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