NAME
xfce4-terminal - A Terminal emulator for X
SYNOPSIS
xfce4-terminal
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
xfce4-terminal
application.
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 on which can easily share the screen with other
graphical applications.
xfce4-terminal emulates the xterm application developed by the X Consortium.
In turn, the xterm applications emulates the DEC VT102 terminal and also
supports the DEC VT220 escape sequences. An escape sequence is a series of
characters that 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
xfce4-terminal takes the following command line options:
--help
Print a help screen and exit.
--version
Output version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
xfce4-terminal's behaviour is affected by the following environment
variables.
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If this
environment variable is unset, it defaults to
~/.config/
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
Set of preference ordered base directories relative to which configuration
files should be searched in addition to the
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
base directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.
XDG_DATA_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific data files. If this environment
variables is unset, it defaults to
~/.local/share/
XDG_DATA_DIRS
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
xfce4-terminal reads its configuration from the files
R $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/Terminal/terminalrc .
xfce4-terminal creates the main menubar and the popup
menu from the files
R $XDG_DATA_DIRS/Terminal/Terminal.ui
and the toolbars layout from the files
R $XDG_DATA_DIRS/Terminal/Terminal-toolbars.ui .
If you customize the toolbars, the new toolbars layout
is stored to
R $XDG_DATA_HOME/Terminal/Terminal-toolbars.ui .
AUTHOR
The xfce4-terminal software and this manual page was written
for os-cillation by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugs.os-cillation.com/.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003-2005 os-cillation.