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NAME
       gnome-terminal - Terminal emulator for GNOME

SYNOPSIS
       gnome-terminal  [--tclass  CLASS_NAME]  [--font	FONT_NAME] [--nologin]
       [--login]  [--geometry  GEOMETRY]  [--command  CMD]   [--execute	  CMD]
       [--foreground  COLOR] [--background COLOR] [--utmp] [--noutmp] [--wtmp]
       [--nowtmp]   [--title]	[--termname   NAME]   [--start-factory-server]
       [--use-factory]	 [--pixmap   FILENAME]	 [--bgscroll]	[--bgnoscroll]
       [--shaded]  [--noshaded]	 [--transparent]   [--lastlog]	 [--nolastlog]
       [--icon FNAME]

DESCRIPTION
       gnome-terminal is a terminal emulator program that is part of the GNOME
       project.	 It provides access to the Unix shell on  the  GNOME  environ‐
       ment.   It  emulates  the DEC VT terminals as supported by the xterm(1)
       program from the X distribution.

       gnome-terminal supports colour display (see the section on  environment
       variables  for details) and provides mouse support to applications that
       are aware of mouse events for xterm-like terminals.

EMULATION
       The GNOME terminal program (gnome-terminal) is designed to emulate  the
       'xterm'	program provided by the X Consortium.  The xterm(1) program in
       turn is an almost-complete emulation of the DEC VT102 terminal.

       The GNOME terminal program supports the same extensions	to  the	 VT102
       that  the xterm program provides, through special escape sequences. The
       xterm program is an evolving program. Recent changes to xterm have been
       been  incorporated  into gnome-terminal. This includes emulation of the
       newer DEC VT220 escape sequences.

CLASSES
       The GNOME terminal allows you to have different configuration  profiles
       to suit different uses (different background colours, presence, absence
       or position of scrollbars, and so on).  To set these up, you invoke the
       preferences  dialogue  box  from	 the  settings menu of gnome-terminal.
       Select the options you prefer (these changes will be made to your  cur‐
       rently-open  terminal,  so you can see what they look like), and before
       closing the preferences box, make sure you have put a new name  in  the
       space marked "Terminal Class".

       To  activate  a	specific  class	 at  program  startup  you can use the
       --tclass command line option

GNOME Terminal Factories.
       It is possible to start a single instance of the	 GNOME	terminal  pro‐
       gram, and yet have multiple windows open at the same time.  The easiest
       way of achieving this is by selecting "File" and	 then  "New  terminal"
       from  the  menu.	  But  it is also possible to programatically instruct
       GNOME Terminal to reuse an existing running instance of GNOME Terminal.

       By defaul the GNOME desktop ships with settings that allow terminals to
       share  a single process, hence reducing memory usage.  This is achieved
       by registering GNOME with the CORBA gnome-name-service  and  using  the
       --start-factory and the --use-factory options.

OPTIONS
       --tclass CLASS_NAME
	       Makes Gnome Terminal uses the configuration values for the ter‐
	       minal  class  specified	in  CLASS_NAME	(for  example,	I  use
	       --tclass	 red  for root terminals).  You can define new classes
	       through the Preferences dialog.

       --font FONT_NAME
	       Specifies the font to be used to display text in the Gnome Ter‐
	       minal.

       --nologin
	       This  option indicates that the shell started by Gnome Terminal
	       should not be a login shell but a regular shell.

       --login This option indicates that the shell started by Gnome  Terminal
	       should be a login shell (this trick is cleverly achieved in the
	       Unix world by running the shell but telling the shell that  its
	       name has a dash in the front.  Very clever).

       --geometry GEOMETRY
	       Specifies the startup geometry for the terminal.

       --command CMD, -e CMD
	       Executes the command CMD instead of the shell.  This saves some
	       memory if you are just planning on running a dedicated applica‐
	       tion  on that window.  For example, you could run the `minicom'
	       terminal emulator on the window like this:
	       gnome-terminal --command minicom
	       or for example, if you want to monitor your system:
	       gnome-terminal --command top

       --execute CMD, -x CMD
	       This flag is here for compatibility reasons.  It is the same as
	       --command.

       --foreground COLOR
	       Specifies the color to be used for the foreground of the termi‐
	       nal.

       --background COLOR
	       Specifies the color to be used for the background of the termi‐
	       nal.

       --utmp  Updates	the  Unix  Login  entry	 (The  UTMP  file, this is the
	       default), this registers the GNOME terminal instance  with  the
	       list  of	 users that are logged into the system (so you will be
	       visible with the `who' command).

       --noutmp
	       Requests GNOME Terminal to not update the login records.	  This
	       means that the user will not show up in the output of the `who'
	       Unix command.

       --wtmp  Requests that this session  will	 be  logged  into  the	system
	       records	for  users  that have logged into the system.  This is
	       different from `utmp' because this keeps track of who logged in
	       and logged out of the system, independently of whether it shows
	       up in the list of users.

       --nowtmp
	       Requests that  the  session  be	not  logged  into  the	system
	       records.

       --title TITLE, -t TITLE
	       Sets the title for the GNOME terminal to be TITLE.

       --termname NAME
	       Specifies  the terminal name that should be put in the environ‐
	       ment variable TERM.  It is not advised that you use this	 flag,
	       but you might want to use it for some bizarre cases.

       --start-factory-server
	       Tells  GNOME  Terminal that it should start the factory server.
	       This will provide a terminal server that later other GNOME ter‐
	       minals  can  contact (this saves memory, as a single process is
	       ran, and multiple GNOME terminals windows can be managed by the
	       same process).

       --use-factory
	       This  tells  GNOME  terminal  that  it should try to contact an
	       existing GNOME Terminal factory to minimize memory use.

       --pixmap FILENAME
	       Specifies the image filename to be used as the  background  for
	       this terminal.

       --bgscroll
	       Specifies that the background image should scroll together with
	       the text as the screen scrools.

       --bgnoscroll
	       Specifies that the background image should not scroll when  the
	       text scrolls in the terminal.

       --shaded
	       Requests	 that  the  background	image be shaded (for used with
	       --transparent and --pixmap).

       --noshaded
	       Requests that the background remain untouched  (no  shading  be
	       applied).   --transparent Requests that the terminal should run
	       in "transparent" mode, making the background of the terminal be
	       the background of your root window.  --icon FNAME Specifies the
	       filename that contains the icon that would  be  used  for  your
	       terminal (if your window manager supports the icon hints).

AUTHORS
       Michael Zucchi is the wizard behind the Zvt widget which implements the
       terminal.  Miguel de Icaza and Erik Troan implemented the  user	inter‐
       face elements for the gnome-terminal program.

MAINTAINER
       You   can   contact   the   maintainer	of   this   code   by  mailing
       miguel@ximian.com.  The maintainer for Zvt is notzed@ximian.com

SEE ALSO
       gnome-session(1)

BUGS
       Please report bugs in this program in the GNOME bug tracking system  at
       http://bugzilla.gnome.org

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