TERMINAL(1)                          Xfce                          TERMINAL(1)



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/



Terminal 0.4.8                    06/21/2011                       TERMINAL(1)
