xfce4-terminal - Command-line Options
Here is a summary of all the available command-line options for xfce4-terminal, grouped by type. Explanations are in the following sections.
- General Options
- -h, --help ; -V, --version ; --disable-server ; --color-table ; --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-toolbar , --hide-toolbar
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. This ensures the new window will run in a new process, not trying to open a new window from a running instance.
- --color-table
- Print a table showing all colors in the color palette.
- --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. If you start with --tab as the first option, terminal will use the last opened window to open the tab in, this can also be combined with --drop-down.
- --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. You can use this to set the columns and rows with the format
COLUMNSxROWS
, but also to set a position+XOFF+YOFF
or bothCOLUMNSxROWS+XOFF+YOFF
. The offsets can also be negative to define a right or bottom offset. See also X(7). - --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. The role is a unique identifier for the window to be used when restoring a session.
- --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-toolbar
- Turn on the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.
- --hide-toolbar
- Turn off the toolbar for the last-specified window. Applies to only one window. Can be specified once for each window you create from the command line.