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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;
--preferences; --default-display=display;
--default-working-directory=directory

Window or Tab Separators
--tab; --window

Tab Options
-x, --execute; -e, --command=command; -T, --title=title;
--dynamic-title-mode=mode; --initial-title=title;
--working-directory=directory; -H, --hold; --active-tab;
--color-text=color; --color-bg=color

Window Options
--display=display; --drop-down; --geometry=geometry; --role=role;
--startup-id=string; -I, --icon=icon; --fullscreen; --maximize;
--minimize; --show-menubar, --hide-menubar; --show-borders,
--hide-borders; --show-toolbar, --hide-toolbar; --show-scrollbar,
--hide-scrollbar; --font=font; --zoom=zoom

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

--preferences
Open the xfce4-terminal preferences window

--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, each opening an additional tab.

--window
Open a new window containing one tab. More than one of these
options can be provided.

If there is an active window, the last specified window is that
window until a --window option is encountered at which point that new
window is the last specified window.

If there is no active window, the last specified window is the window
created by xfce4-terminal until a --window option is encountered at
which point that new window is the last specified window.

These options can be combined with --drop-down.

Tab Options

-x, --execute
Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal

-e, --command=command
Execute command inside the terminal

-T, --title=title
Set title as the window title for the terminal (ignores
dynamically-set title)

--dynamic-title-mode=mode
Set mode as the dynamically-set title mode for the terminal, one
of: 'replace', 'before', 'after', 'none'

--initial-title=title
Set title as the initial window title for the terminal (respects
dynamically-set title)

--working-directory=directory
Set directory as the working directory for the terminal

-H, --hold
Causes the terminal to be kept around after the child command has
terminated

--active-tab
Makes the terminal active: useful when a terminal window contains
multiple tabs

--color-text=color
Set color as the text color for the terminal per the following
specification: https://docs.gtk.org/gdk3/method.RGBA.parse.html

--color-bg=color
Set color as the background color for the terminal per the
following specification:
https://docs.gtk.org/gdk3/method.RGBA.parse.html

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.

--minimize
Set the last-specified window into minimized 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.

--show-scrollbar
Turn on the scrollbar for the last-specified window. Scrollbar
position is taken from the settings; if position is None, the
default position is Right side. Applies to only one window. Can
be specified once for each window you create from the command
line.

--hide-scrollbar
Turn off the scrollbar for the last-specified window. Applies to
only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create
from the command line.

--font=font
Set the terminal font.

--zoom=zoom
Set the zoom level: the font size will be multiplied by this
level. The range is from -7 to 7, default is 0. Each step
multiplies the size by 1.2, i.e. level 7 is 3.5831808 (1.2^7)
times larger than the default size.

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_HOME}/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
This is the location of the configuration file that includes the
preferences which control the look and feel of xfce4-terminal.
Note: any update made to the configuration file via an external
editor will be picked up by xfce4-terminal instances running.

${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm
This is the location of the keyboard shortcuts configuration file
for xfce4-terminal. Editing this file allows one to modify or
disable shortcuts for the supported actions.

SEE ALSO

bash(1), X(7)

AUTHORS

Sergios - Anestis Kefalidis <sergioskefalidis@gmail.com>
Developer

Igor Zakharov <f2404@yandex.ru>
Developer

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/

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