The easiest way to start Xfce Terminal is to use the applications menu of your desktop; for Xfce, point your mouse cursor to the desktop, press the right mouse button and choose System → Xfce Terminal.
You can also start xfce4-terminal from a command line or from the Application launcher. Just hit Alt-F2, type Xfce Terminal and click the button Execute.
When you start Xfce Terminal for the first time, the application opens a terminal window with default settings.
Initial Terminal Window |
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The terminal window displays a command prompt where you can type UNIX commands. The command prompt may vary depending on the configuration of your shell. The cursor is positioned at the command prompt. When you type a UNIX command and press Return, the computer executes the command. By default, Terminal will use the login shell of the user who starts the application (/bin/bash
in case of a default Linux installation).
Terminal sets the following environment variables for the command running inside the terminal window:
xfce4-terminal
by default.Xfce Terminal provides a tab feature that enables you to open several terminals within a single window. Each terminal is opened in a separate tab. Click on the appropriate tab to display the terminal in the window. Each tabbed terminal in a window is separate sub-process, so you can use each terminal for a different task.
Working with Multiple Terminals in Tabs |
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See the section Usage for information about how to open a new tabbed terminal.
You can close a terminal tab by clicking on the close button in the terminal tab header or by choosing File → Close Tab from the menubar.
Open the Find dialog, by clicking Terminal → Find....
Search in Scrollbar Buffer |
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If the dialog is closed, you can continue search with the Terminal → Find Previous and Terminal → Find Next menu actions. The search pattern will be unset when you clear the scrollbar buffer.