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NAME
xfce4-terminal - A Terminal emulator for X
SYNOPSIS
xfce4-terminal [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
xfce4-terminal is what is known as an X terminal emulator, often
referred to as terminal or shell. It provides an equivalent to the
old-fashioned text screen on your desktop, but one which can easily
share the screen with other graphical applications. Windows users may
already be familiar with the MS-DOS Prompt utility, which has the
analogous function of offering a DOS command-line under Windows, though
one should note that the UNIX CLI offer far more power and ease of use
than does DOS.
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
Freedesktop.org[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.
SEE ALSO
bash(1), X(7)
AUTHORS
Nick Schermer <nick@xfce.org>
Developer
Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>
Software developer, os-cillation, System development,
Developer
NOTES
1. Freedesktop.org
http://freedesktop.org/
xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 12/26/2013 XFCE4-TERMINAL(1)