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; -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

       --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

       -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://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-RGBA-Colors.html#gdk-rgba-parse

       --color-bg=color
           Set color as the background color for the terminal per the following specification:
           https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-RGBA-Colors.html#gdk-rgba-parse

   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_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. Note: any update made to the configuration file via an external editor
           will be picked up by xfce4-terminal instances running.

       ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}/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

       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/