Terminal uses the Basedir Specification as defined on Freedesktop.org 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.
~/.config/
. ${sysconfdir}/xdg/
. The value of ${sysconfdir}
depends on how the program was build and will often be /etc/
for binary packages. ~/.local/share/
. ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
base directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.
Terminal offers a few hidden options to allow power users to control various advanced settings and to reduce the number of options in the user interface. To set any of these options, you will have to open the file ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc
in your favorite text editor and edit the section [Configuration]
; simply create the file if it does not already exist. For example, your terminalrc could look like
[Configuration] MiscAlwaysShowTabs=TRUE MiscBell=TRUE MiscConfirmClose=FALSE MiscCursorBlinks=TRUE MiscCursorShape=TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK MiscCycleTabs=FALSE MiscInheritGeometry=TRUE MiscMouseAutohide=FALSE MiscTabCloseButtons=TRUE MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=TRUE MiscTabPosition=GTK_POS_TOP MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE
plus all the options that are controlled through the preferences dialog.
TRUE
the tab headers will always be displayed even if only a single terminal tab is open. This option is useful if you do not want the terminal window to resize when you open a second tab. It is disabled by default. MiscBell=TRUE
) or disables (MiscBell=FALSE
) the audible terminal bell. It is disabled by default. TRUE
(the default) or FALSE
. TRUE
or FALSE
(the default). TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
(the default), TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_IBEAM
or TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_UNDERLINE
. This option is only available when you compile against VTE 0.19.1 or newer. TRUE
(the default) or FALSE
. 80×24
). TRUE
or FALSE
(the default). TRUE
or FALSE
(the default). TRUE
(the default) or FALSE
. TRUE
(the default) or FALSE
. GTK_POS_TOP
(the default), GTK_POS_LEFT
, GTK_POS_BOTTOM
or GTK_POS_RIGHT
. If you specify GTK_POS_LEFT
or GTK_POS_RIGHT
here, the tab header texts will be displayed vertically instead of horizontally. It is highly recommended to disable MiscTabCloseButtons
for GTK_POS_LEFT
and GTK_POS_RIGHT
. FALSE
, URLs won't be highlighted anymore and you will no longer be able to middle-click the URL to open it in the preferred application.