xfce4-terminal - Terminal Emulator

Xfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.

• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Performance Issues
• Latest Release
• Source Code Repository
• Reporting Bugs

• Introduction to Terminal – What is a terminal emulator and what makes the Xfce terminal emulator special
• Getting Started – Working for the first time with the Xfce Terminal emulator
• Usage – Basic handling of the application
• Drop-down Window – How to use a drop-down terminal window

• Preferences – Configuring the terminal emulator
• Command-line Options – Parameters for starting the terminal
• Advanced Topics – Hidden settings and environment variables

Keyboard shortcuts can be configured by editing your ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm file.

Xfce Terminal is based on the Vte terminal widget library, just like gnome-terminal. Vte is probably not the fastest terminal emulation library on earth, but it's one of the best when it comes to Unicode support, and not to forget, it's actively developed. That said, performance is still an important issue for a terminal emulator and Vte with font-antialiasing enabled can be very slow even on decent systems. Xfce Terminal therefore offers a possibility to explicitly disable anti-aliasing for the terminal font. If you are experiencing problems with the terminal rendering speed, you might want to disable the anti-aliasing for the terminal font.

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• xfce4-terminal 1.1.4 released (2024/12/25 17:26)

  xfce4-terminal 1.1.4 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/1.1/xfce4-terminal-1.1.4.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/1.1/xfce4-terminal-1.1.4.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/1.1/xfce4-terminal-1.1.4.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-terminal? ======================= Xfce4-terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarily for the Xfce desktop environment. It is a lightweight emulator based on the VTE widget, easy to use and provides an optional drop-down window (game-console style). Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start Release notes for 1.1.4 ======================= - window: Ensure tabs_menu != NULL when updating - screen: Ensure working dir is not NULL - Do not resize the window on zoom - docs: added documentation and cli parsing for --class option - Use TerminalWindow's screen to test for windowing system - Use dropdown's display rather than default display - Avoid warning when widget display is not the default display - Fix segfault when there are both Wayland and X11 displays - screen: Avoid type check on released variable - preferences: Initialize GdkRGBA variable - screen: Cancel async spawn of child in finalize() - Improve error message for empty custom command - Check for screen pointers equality before destroying last screen - screen: Fix gtk_container_get_children leaks - screen: Fix string leak in terminal_screen_paste_unsafe_text - window: Fix leak in terminal_window_get_working_directory - window: Fix leak in terminal_window_menu_add_section - main: Fix string array leak - terminal: Fix spelling error - prefs-dialog: Fix AtkRelationSet leak - Fix gtk-layer-shell includes - preferences: Add missing sanity check - Preferences: maximize new windows - Fix running a command as a login shell - scan-build: Fix core.NullDereference and core.CallAndMessage - build: clang: Silence -Wcast-align - Update `.gitignore` - Rename theme file to desktop for gettext detection - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - build: Use XDT_VERSION_INIT and get rid of configure.ac.in - build: Switch from intltool to gettext - Cancel by default in unsafe past dialog - Restore "Text blinks" tooltip - Revert "fix typo" - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur

Previous Releases

https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal

• Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs

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