NAME
Terminal - A Terminal emulator for X
SYNOPSIS
Terminal [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
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.
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. 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;
--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; --geometry=geometry; --role=role;
--startup-id=string; -I, --icon=icon; --fullscreen; --maximize;
--show-menubar, --hide-menubar; --show-borders, --hide-borders;
--show-toolbars, --hide-toolbars
General Options
-h, --help
List the various command line options supported by Terminal and
exit
-V, --version
Display version information and exit
--disable-server
Do not register with the D-BUS session message bus
--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.
--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.
--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. It is mostly used for session
management inside Terminal
--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-toolbars
Turn on the toolbars for the last-specified window. Applies to only
one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from
the command line.
--hide-toolbars
Turn off the toolbars for the last-specified window. Applies to
only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create
from the command line.
EXAMPLES
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
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}/Terminal/terminalrc
This is the location of the configuration file that includes the
preferences which control the look and feel of Terminal.
${XDG_DATA_DIRS}/Terminal/Terminal-toolbars.ui
This file includes the user interface definition for the toolbars.
If you customize the toolbars using the graphical toolbars editor,
Terminal will store the new toolbars layout in the file
${XDG_DATA_HOME}/Terminal/Terminal-toolbars.ui.
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/