XFCE4-TERMINAL(1) Xfce XFCE4-TERMINAL(1) 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 Consor- tium. In turn, the xterm application emulates the DEC VT102 terminal and also supports the DEC VT220 escape sequences. An escape sequence is a se- ries of characters that start with the Esc character. xfce4-terminal ac- cepts 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; --prefer- ences; --default-display=display; --default-working-directory=directory Window or Tab Separators --tab; --window Tab Options -x, --execute; -e, --command=command; -T, --title=title; --dynamic-ti- tle-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; --mini- mize; --show-menubar, --hide-menubar; --show-borders, --hide-borders; --show-toolbar, --hide-toolbar; --show-scrollbar, --hide-scrollbar; --font=font; --zoom=zoom; --class=class 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. Run this terminal in its own process. --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 op- tions 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 un- til 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 cre- ated 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 dynam- ically-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 ter- minated. --active-tab Makes the terminal active: useful when a terminal window contains mul- tiple tabs. --color-text=color Set color as the text color for the terminal per the following specifi- cation: 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 ter- minal). This will only apply to the first window started with this op- tion. It is advised to bind this to a shortcut in the keyboard prefer- ences. --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 com- mand 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 com- mand 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 com- mand 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 com- mand 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 com- mand 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. --class=class Set the window manager class of all terminal windows. Controls window grouping in the panel. If a terminal instance is already open, requires --disable-server to be set. 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 di- rectory. The directories should be separated with a colon. FILES ${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. BUGS Please report any bugs to https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/is- sues. 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/ xfce4-terminal 08/27/2026 XFCE4-TERMINAL(1)
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