NAME
Terminal - GNUstep Terminal Emulator
SYNOPSIS
openapp Terminal [program [arguments ...]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the Terminal GNUstep application.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
Terminal provides terminal emulation in a GNUstep environment. It
gives colorized terminals with configurable fonts, and also allows
users to configure shell utilities as GNUstep services.
Fonts
You can change the fonts used for normal and bold text in the
preferences panel. Terminal will get the metrics for the character
cells from the normal font, so this font really should be a fixed pitch
font or things will look messed up. The bold font should closely match
the normal font.
Terminal assumes that all characters, bold and normal, stay inside the
normal font’s bounding box. If they don’t, there will be visual
glitches. However, it is more common that a non-fixed pitch font’s
bounding box is very large (since it needs to enclose all characters in
the font), so that the terminal window will be very wide.
Keys
By default, the command key is used to access key equivalents for menu
entries, and thus can’t be used as a meta key in the terminal. If you
have command mapped to the key you want to use as meta, you can enable
will disable all key equivalents in Terminal. The ’proper’ solution to
this problem is to remap the command key (and possibly alternate key).
The alternate key will always be treated as meta.
Often, the escape key can be used to emulate a meta key. This means
that in some programs, you might have to press escape twice to get a
’real’ escape, or there will be a delay before it is handled. The
’Send a double escape...’ option causes Terminal to send a double
escape when you hit the escape key (ie. "\e\e"), which should work
better (but you can no longer use the escape key as meta).
Terminal services
Terminal can provide services for other applications by piping the
selection through arbitrary commands. Services are configured in one
of the preferences panel’s tabs. The first time you open this tab, a
default set of services will be loaded. To save these where
make_services will actually find them, press ’Apply and save’. This
will also run make_services to update the services list, but it may
take up to 30 seconds for running applications to notice the change.
The ’Add’ and ’Remove’ buttons add and remove services. Using the
These files can be imported using the ’Import’ button, so it is
possible for users to share terminal services definitions. The
extension of the file should be ’.svcs’. The default set of services
is such a file located in the application wrapper’s resource directory.
If you import a service with the same name as an existing service, and
they aren’t identical, the new one will be renamed to avoid a conflict.
Name
This is the name of the service as it appears in the services
menu. By default, terminal services will be placed in a
’Terminal’ submenu of the Services menu, but you can override
this by giving the name a leading ’/’. In this case, you can
also use a second ’/’ to create your own submenus. (gnustep-gui
doesn’t support submenus of submenus, though.) Names must be
unique.
Key The key equivalent for this command, if any. Note that if an
application uses this key for some other menu entry, the key
will activate that menu entry, not the service.
Command line
The command line. It is passed to /bin/sh, so any shell
commands will work, and arguments may have to be quoted. A ’%p’
in the command line will cause a prompt to be brought up when
the service is run. If input is to be placed on the command
line, you can mark the place to put it at with ’%s’ (otherwise
it will be appended to the command line). You can use ’%%’ to
get a real ’%’.
Run in background/new window/idle window
If a service is set to run in the background, the command will
have to complete before the service will return, and the service
can return output. Otherwise, the command’s output will appear
in a window. ‘‘new window’’ causes a completely new window to
be opened (and it will close automatically when the command is
completed if that option is set). ‘‘idle window’’ causes
Terminal to try to reuse an existing idle window. If there is
no such window it will open a new window (and that window won’t
close automatically).
Ignore/return output (only applies to background services)
If set to ignore, the output of the command will be discarded.
Otherwise, it will be parsed to a string or a bunch of
filenames, depending on the acceptable types. The output is
assumed to be utf8 encoded.
No input/Input in stdin/Input on command line
If set to ’No input’, the service won’t accept any input.
Otherwise it is necessary to select something to run it, and the
selection will be either piped to the command (’in stdin’) or
placed on the service’s command line (either at the ’%s’ or at
the end, see above). Input will be sent to the command utf8
encoded.
Accept types
Plain text will be sent verbatim to the command. A list of
filenames (possibly just one) will be sent separated by ’ ’:s
(if on the command line), or newlines (if in stdin).
OPTIONS
Commands can be given on the command line which will be run in the
newly opened shell window.
EMULATION
The terminal emulation code is based on Linux’s console code, and
nearly all parts of it are handled. Thus, the TERM environment
variable is set to ’linux’. Additionally, ’vt100’, ’vt220’, ’xterm’,
and others similar to these should mostly work. To distinguish
Terminal from a ’real’ linux console, the environment variable
TERM_PROGRAM is set to GNUstep_Terminal.
The xterm extensions for setting the window’s title are also supported.
You set the title using:
1 sets the miniwindow title, 2 sets the window title, and 0 sets both.
Example (from Jeff Teunissen):
export
PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne "\033]2;Terminal - ${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}\007"’
ENVIRONMENT
Terminal sets the following environment variables:
TERM Will be set to linux.
TERM_PROGRAM
Will be set to GNUstep_Terminal.
LANGUAGES
Terminal speaks English, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
NOTES
The content of this manual page is taken from the packages README file
and was converted into a manual page for Debian.
SEE ALSO
http://www.nongnu.org/backbone/
http://www.gnustep.org/
GNUstep(7)
openapp(1)
open(1)
make_services(1)
December 17, 2004