1XFCE4-TERMINAL(1) Xfce XFCE4-TERMINAL(1)
2
6 xfce4-terminal - A Terminal emulator for X
7
9 xfce4-terminal [OPTION...]
10
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.
28
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 --preferences; --default-display=display;
37 --default-working-directory=directory
38 Window or Tab Separators
40 --tab; --window
41 Tab Options
43 -x, --execute; -e, --command=command; -T, --title=title;
44 --dynamic-title-mode=mode; --initial-title=title;
45 --working-directory=directory; -H, --hold; --active-tab;
46 --color-text=color; --color-bg=color
47 Window Options
49 --display=display; --drop-down; --geometry=geometry; --role=role;
50 --startup-id=string; -I, --icon=icon; --fullscreen; --maximize;
51 --minimize; --show-menubar, --hide-menubar; --show-borders,
52 --hide-borders; --show-toolbar, --hide-toolbar; --show-scrollbar,
53 --hide-scrollbar; --font=font; --zoom=zoom
54 General Options
56 -h, --help
57 List the various command line options supported by xfce4-terminal
58 and exit
59 -V, --version
61 Display version information and exit
62 --disable-server
64 Do not register with the D-BUS session message bus
65 --color-table
67 Echo the color codes
68 --preferences
70 Open the xfce4-terminal preferences window
71 --default-display=display
73 Default X display to use.
74 --default-working-directory=directory
76 Set directory as the default working directory for the terminal
77 Window or Tab Separators
79 --tab
80 Open a new tab in the last specified window. More than one of these
81 options can be provided, each opening an additional tab.
82 --window
84 Open a new window containing one tab. More than one of these
85 options can be provided.
86 If there is an active window, the last specified window is that window
88 until a --window option is encountered at which point that new window
89 is the last specified window.
90 If there is no active window, the last specified window is the window
92 created by xfce4-terminal until a --window option is encountered at
93 which point that new window is the last specified window.
94 These options can be combined with --drop-down.
96 Tab Options
98 -x, --execute
99 Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal
100 -e, --command=command
102 Execute command inside the terminal
103 -T, --title=title
105 Set title as the window title for the terminal (ignores
106 dynamically-set title)
107 --dynamic-title-mode=mode
109 Set mode as the dynamically-set title mode for the terminal, one
110 of: 'replace', 'before', 'after', 'none'
111 --initial-title=title
113 Set title as the initial window title for the terminal (respects
114 dynamically-set title)
115 --working-directory=directory
117 Set directory as the working directory for the terminal
118 -H, --hold
120 Causes the terminal to be kept around after the child command has
121 terminated
122 --active-tab
124 Makes the terminal active: useful when a terminal window contains
125 multiple tabs
126 --color-text=color
128 Set color as the text color for the terminal per the following
129 specification: https://docs.gtk.org/gdk3/method.RGBA.parse.html
130 --color-bg=color
132 Set color as the background color for the terminal per the
133 following specification:
134 https://docs.gtk.org/gdk3/method.RGBA.parse.html
135 Window Options
137 --display=display
138 X display to use for the last- specified window.
139 --drop-down
141 Will start the window in drop-down mode (also called a Quake-style
142 terminal). This will only apply to the first window started with
143 this option. It is advised to bind this to a shortcut in the
144 keyboard preferences.
145 --geometry=geometry
147 Sets the geometry of the last-specified window to geometry. Read
148 X(7) for more information on how to specify window geometries.
149 --role=role
151 Sets the window role of the last-specified window to role. Applies
152 to only one window and can be specified once for each window you
153 create from the command line. The role is a unique identifier for
154 the window to be used when restoring a session.
155 --startup-id=string
157 Specifies the startup notification id for the last-specified
158 window. Used internally to forward the startup notification id when
159 using the D-BUS service.
160 -I, --icon=icon
162 Set the terminal's icon as an icon name or filename.
163 --fullscreen
165 Set the last-specified window into fullscreen mode; applies to only
166 one window; can be specified once for each window you create from
167 the command line.
168 --maximize
170 Set the last-specified window into maximized mode; applies to only
171 one window; can be specified once for each window you create from
172 the command line.
173 --minimize
175 Set the last-specified window into minimized mode; applies to only
176 one window; can be specified once for each window you create from
177 the command line.
178 --show-menubar
180 Turn on the menubar for the last-specified window. Can be specified
181 once for each window you create from the command line.
182 --hide-menubar
184 Turn off the menubar for the last-specified window. Can be
185 specified once for each window you create from the command line.
186 --show-borders
188 Turn on the window decorations for the last-specified window.
189 Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window
190 you create from the command line.
191 --hide-borders
193 Turn off the window decorations for the last-specified window.
194 Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window
195 you create from the command line.
196 --show-toolbar
198 Turn on the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only
199 one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from
200 the command line.
201 --hide-toolbar
203 Turn off the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only
204 one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from
205 the command line.
206 --show-scrollbar
208 Turn on the scrollbar for the last-specified window. Scrollbar
209 position is taken from the settings; if position is None, the
210 default position is Right side. Applies to only one window. Can be
211 specified once for each window you create from the command line.
212 --hide-scrollbar
214 Turn off the scrollbar for the last-specified window. Applies to
215 only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create
216 from the command line.
217 --font=font
219 Set the terminal font.
220 --zoom=zoom
222 Set the zoom level: the font size will be multiplied by this level.
223 The range is from -7 to 7, default is 0. Each step multiplies the
224 size by 1.2, i.e. level 7 is 3.5831808 (1.2^7) times larger than
225 the default size.
226
228 xfce4-terminal --geometry 80x40 --command mutt --tab --command mc
229 Opens a new terminal window with a geometry of 80 columns and 40
230 rows and two tabs in it, where the first tab runs mutt and the
231 second tab runs mc.
232
234 xfce4-terminal uses the Basedir Specification as defined on
235 Freedesktop.org[1] to locate its data and configuration files. This
236 means that file locations will be specified as a path relative to the
237 directories described in the specification.
238 ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}
240 The first base directory to look for configuration files. By
241 default this is set to ~/.config/.
242 ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}
244 A colon separated list of base directories that contain
245 configuration data. By default the application will look in
246 ${sysconfdir}/xdg/. The value of ${sysconfdir} depends on how the
247 program was build and will often be /etc/ for binary packages.
248 ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
250 The root for all user-specific data files. By default this is set
251 to ~/.local/share/.
252 ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}
254 A set of preference ordered base directories relative to which data
255 files should be searched in addition to the ${XDG_DATA_HOME} base
256 directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.
257
259 ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
260 This is the location of the configuration file that includes the
261 preferences which control the look and feel of xfce4-terminal.
262 Note: any update made to the configuration file via an external
263 editor will be picked up by xfce4-terminal instances running.
264 ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm
266 This is the location of the keyboard shortcuts configuration file
267 for xfce4-terminal. Editing this file allows one to modify or
268 disable shortcuts for the supported actions.
269
271 bash(1), X(7)
272
274 Sergios - Anestis Kefalidis <sergioskefalidis@gmail.com>
275 Developer
276 Igor Zakharov <f2404@yandex.ru>
278 Developer
279 Nick Schermer <nick@xfce.org>
281 Developer
282 Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>
284 Software developer, os-cillation, System development,
285 Developer
286
288 1. Freedesktop.org
289 http://freedesktop.org/
290xfce4-terminal 04/24/2022 XFCE4-TERMINAL(1)