SYNOPSIS
- xfce4-terminal [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
xfce4-terminal emulates the xterm application developed by the X Consortium. In turn, the xterm application emulates the DEC VT102 terminal and also supports the DEC VT220 escape sequences. An escape sequence is a series of characters that start with the Esc character. xfce4-terminal accepts all of the escape sequences that the VT102 and VT220 terminals use for functions such as to position the cursor and to clear the screen.
OPTIONS
Option Summary
Here is a summary of all the options, grouped by type. Explanations are in the following sections.
General Options
- -h, --help; -V, --version; --disable-server; --color-table; --default-display=display; --default-working-directory=directory
Window or Tab Separators
- --tab; --window
Tab Options
- -x, --execute; -e, --command=command; --working-directory=directory; -T, --title=title; -H, --hold
Window Options
- --display=display; --drop-down; --geometry=geometry; --role=role; --startup-id=string; -I, --icon=icon; --fullscreen; --maximize; --show-menubar, --hide-menubar; --show-borders, --hide-borders; --show-toolbar, --hide-toolbar
General Options
-h, --help
- List the various command line options supported by xfce4-terminal and exit
-V, --version
- Display version information and exit
--disable-server
- Do not register with the D-BUS session message bus
--color-table
- Echo the color codes
--default-display=display
- Default X display to use.
--default-working-directory=directory
- Set directory as the default working directory for the terminal
Window or Tab Separators
--tab
-
Open a new tab in the last-specified window; more than one of these options can be provided.
If you use this as the first option, without --window separators, the last window will be re-used.
--window
- Open a new window containing one tab; more than one of these options can be provided.
Tab Options
-x, --execute
- Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal
-e, --command=command
- Execute command inside the terminal
--working-directory=directory
- Set directory as the working directory for the terminal
-T, --title=title
- Set title as the initial window title for the terminal
-H, --hold
- Causes the terminal to be kept around after the child command has terminated
Window Options
--display=display
- X display to use for the last- specified window.
--drop-down
- Will start the window in drop-down mode (also called a Quake-style terminal). This will only apply to the first window started with this option. It is advised to bind this to a shortcut in the keyboard preferences.
--geometry=geometry
- Sets the geometry of the last-specified window to geometry. Read X(7) for more information on how to specify window geometries.
--role=role
- Sets the window role of the last-specified window to role. Applies to only one window and can be specified once for each window you create from the command line. The role is a unique identifier for the window to be used when restoring a session.
--startup-id=string
- Specifies the startup notification id for the last-specified window. Used internally to forward the startup notification id when using the D-BUS service.
-I, --icon=icon
- Set the terminal's icon as an icon name or filename.
--fullscreen
- Set the last-specified window into fullscreen mode; applies to only one window; can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--maximize
- Set the last-specified window into maximized mode; applies to only one window; can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--show-menubar
- Turn on the menubar for the last-specified window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--hide-menubar
- Turn off the menubar for the last-specified window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--show-borders
- Turn on the window decorations for the last-specified window. Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--hide-borders
- Turn off the window decorations for the last-specified window. Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--show-toolbar
- Turn on the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
--hide-toolbar
- Turn off the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
EXAMPLES
xfce4-terminal --geometry 80x40 --command mutt --tab --command mc
- Opens a new terminal window with a geometry of 80 columns and 40 rows and two tabs in it, where the first tab runs mutt and the second tab runs mc.
ENVIRONMENT
xfce4-terminal uses the Basedir Specification as defined on m[blue]Freedesktop.orgm[][1] to locate its data and configuration files. This means that file locations will be specified as a path relative to the directories described in the specification.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}
- The first base directory to look for configuration files. By default this is set to ~/.config/.
${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}
- A colon separated list of base directories that contain configuration data. By default the application will look in ${sysconfdir}/xdg/. The value of ${sysconfdir} depends on how the program was build and will often be /etc/ for binary packages.
${XDG_DATA_HOME}
- The root for all user-specific data files. By default this is set to ~/.local/share/.
${XDG_DATA_DIRS}
- A set of preference ordered base directories relative to which data files should be searched in addition to the ${XDG_DATA_HOME} base directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.
FILES
${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
- This is the location of the configuration file that includes the preferences which control the look and feel of xfce4-terminal.
AUTHORS
Nick Schermer <[email protected]>
- Developer
Benedikt Meurer <[email protected]>
Software developer, os-cillation, System development,
- Developer
NOTES
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