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6 xfce4-terminal - A Terminal emulator for X
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9 xfce4-terminal [OPTION...]
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12 xfce4-terminal is what is known as an X terminal emulator, often
13 referred to as terminal or shell. It provides an equivalent to the
14 old-fashioned text screen on your desktop, but one which can easily
15 share the screen with other graphical applications. Windows users may
16 already be familiar with the MS-DOS Prompt utility, which has the
17 analogous function of offering a DOS command-line under Windows, though
18 one should note that the UNIX CLI offer far more power and ease of use
19 than does DOS.
20 xfce4-terminal emulates the xterm application developed by the X
22 Consortium. In turn, the xterm application emulates the DEC VT102
23 terminal and also supports the DEC VT220 escape sequences. An escape
24 sequence is a series of characters that start with the Esc character.
25 xfce4-terminal accepts all of the escape sequences that the VT102 and
26 VT220 terminals use for functions such as to position the cursor and to
27 clear the screen.
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30 Option Summary
31 Here is a summary of all the options, grouped by type. Explanations are
32 in the following sections.
33 General Options
35 -h, --help; -V, --version; --disable-server; --color-table;
36 --default-display=display; --default-working-directory=directory
37 Window or Tab Separators
39 --tab; --window
40 Tab Options
42 -x, --execute; -e, --command=command; -T, --title=title;
43 --dynamic-title-mode=mode; --initial-title=title;
44 --working-directory=directory; -H, --hold; --active-tab;
45 --color-text=color; --color-bg=color
46 Window Options
48 --display=display; --drop-down; --geometry=geometry; --role=role;
49 --startup-id=string; -I, --icon=icon; --fullscreen; --maximize;
50 --minimize; --show-menubar, --hide-menubar; --show-borders,
51 --hide-borders; --show-toolbar, --hide-toolbar; --show-scrollbar,
52 --hide-scrollbar; --font=font; --zoom=zoom
53 General Options
55 -h, --help
56 List the various command line options supported by xfce4-terminal
57 and exit
58 -V, --version
60 Display version information and exit
61 --disable-server
63 Do not register with the D-BUS session message bus
64 --color-table
66 Echo the color codes
67 --default-display=display
69 Default X display to use.
70 --default-working-directory=directory
72 Set directory as the default working directory for the terminal
73 Window or Tab Separators
75 --tab
76 Open a new tab in the last-specified window; more than one of these
77 options can be provided.
78 If you use this as the first option, without --window separators,
80 the last window will be re-used.
81 --window
83 Open a new window containing one tab; more than one of these
84 options can be provided.
85 Tab Options
87 -x, --execute
88 Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal
89 -e, --command=command
91 Execute command inside the terminal
92 -T, --title=title
94 Set title as the window title for the terminal (ignores
95 dynamically-set title)
96 --dynamic-title-mode=mode
98 Set mode as the dynamically-set title mode for the terminal, one
99 of: 'replace', 'before', 'after', 'none'
100 --initial-title=title
102 Set title as the initial window title for the terminal (respects
103 dynamically-set title)
104 --working-directory=directory
106 Set directory as the working directory for the terminal
107 -H, --hold
109 Causes the terminal to be kept around after the child command has
110 terminated
111 --active-tab
113 Makes the terminal active: useful when a terminal window contains
114 multiple tabs
115 --color-text=color
117 Set color as the text color for the terminal per the following
118 specification:
119 https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-RGBA-Colors.html#gdk-rgba-parse
120 --color-bg=color
122 Set color as the background color for the terminal per the
123 following specification:
124 https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-RGBA-Colors.html#gdk-rgba-parse
125 Window Options
127 --display=display
128 X display to use for the last- specified window.
129 --drop-down
131 Will start the window in drop-down mode (also called a Quake-style
132 terminal). This will only apply to the first window started with
133 this option. It is advised to bind this to a shortcut in the
134 keyboard preferences.
135 --geometry=geometry
137 Sets the geometry of the last-specified window to geometry. Read
138 X(7) for more information on how to specify window geometries.
139 --role=role
141 Sets the window role of the last-specified window to role. Applies
142 to only one window and can be specified once for each window you
143 create from the command line. The role is a unique identifier for
144 the window to be used when restoring a session.
145 --startup-id=string
147 Specifies the startup notification id for the last-specified
148 window. Used internally to forward the startup notification id when
149 using the D-BUS service.
150 -I, --icon=icon
152 Set the terminal's icon as an icon name or filename.
153 --fullscreen
155 Set the last-specified window into fullscreen mode; applies to only
156 one window; can be specified once for each window you create from
157 the command line.
158 --maximize
160 Set the last-specified window into maximized mode; applies to only
161 one window; can be specified once for each window you create from
162 the command line.
163 --minimize
165 Set the last-specified window into minimized mode; applies to only
166 one window; can be specified once for each window you create from
167 the command line.
168 --show-menubar
170 Turn on the menubar for the last-specified window. Can be specified
171 once for each window you create from the command line.
172 --hide-menubar
174 Turn off the menubar for the last-specified window. Can be
175 specified once for each window you create from the command line.
176 --show-borders
178 Turn on the window decorations for the last-specified window.
179 Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window
180 you create from the command line.
181 --hide-borders
183 Turn off the window decorations for the last-specified window.
184 Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window
185 you create from the command line.
186 --show-toolbar
188 Turn on the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only
189 one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from
190 the command line.
191 --hide-toolbar
193 Turn off the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only
194 one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from
195 the command line.
196 --show-scrollbar
198 Turn on the scrollbar for the last-specified window. Scrollbar
199 position is taken from the settings; if position is None, the
200 default position is Right side. Applies to only one window. Can be
201 specified once for each window you create from the command line.
202 --hide-scrollbar
204 Turn off the scrollbar for the last-specified window. Applies to
205 only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create
206 from the command line.
207 --font=font
209 Set the terminal font.
210 --zoom=zoom
212 Set the zoom level: the font size will be multiplied by this level.
213 The range is from -7 to 7, default is 0. Each step multiplies the
214 size by 1.2, i.e. level 7 is 3.5831808 (1.2^7) times larger than
215 the default size.
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218 xfce4-terminal --geometry 80x40 --command mutt --tab --command mc
219 Opens a new terminal window with a geometry of 80 columns and 40
220 rows and two tabs in it, where the first tab runs mutt and the
221 second tab runs mc.
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224 xfce4-terminal uses the Basedir Specification as defined on
225 Freedesktop.org[1] to locate its data and configuration files. This
226 means that file locations will be specified as a path relative to the
227 directories described in the specification.
228 ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}
230 The first base directory to look for configuration files. By
231 default this is set to ~/.config/.
232 ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}
234 A colon separated list of base directories that contain
235 configuration data. By default the application will look in
236 ${sysconfdir}/xdg/. The value of ${sysconfdir} depends on how the
237 program was build and will often be /etc/ for binary packages.
238 ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
240 The root for all user-specific data files. By default this is set
241 to ~/.local/share/.
242 ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}
244 A set of preference ordered base directories relative to which data
245 files should be searched in addition to the ${XDG_DATA_HOME} base
246 directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.
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249 ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
250 This is the location of the configuration file that includes the
251 preferences which control the look and feel of xfce4-terminal.
252 Note: any update made to the configuration file via an external
253 editor will be picked up by xfce4-terminal instances running.
254 ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm
256 This is the location of the keyboard shortcuts configuration file
257 for xfce4-terminal. Editing this file allows one to modify or
258 disable shortcuts for the supported actions.
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261 bash(1), X(7)
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264 Igor Zakharov <f2404@yandex.ru>
265 Developer
266 Nick Schermer <nick@xfce.org>
268 Developer
269 Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>
271 Software developer, os-cillation, System development,
272 Developer
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275 1. Freedesktop.org
276 http://freedesktop.org/
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