Command line options

• --background COLOUR

  Used to specify the background colour for the terminal at startup. The COLOUR can be any form accepted by your windowing system.

• --tclass CLASSNAME

  Specifies the terminal class used to configure the terminal at startup.

• --command CMD, -e CMD

  Runs the CMD command at startup time.

• --execute CMD ARGS, -x CMD ARGS

  Executes the command CMD with its arguments ARGS on startup. No arguments beyond this one will be processed by the terminal. This behaviour mimics the xterm -e behaviour.

• --font FONT

  Sets the font of the terminal to FONT

• --foreground COLOUR

  Sets the foreground of the terminal to COLOUR .

• --geometry GEOMETRY

  Specifies the startup geometry for this terminal. The geometry specifies the desired width and height in terminal characters. For example: --geometry=80x40 will create an eighty-column by forty-line terminal. You can also specify the location of the terminal window on the screen; for example, --geometry=80x40+100+200 will create a window whose top left corner is 100 pixels to the right and 200 pixels down from the top left corner of the screen, while --geometry=80x40+100-200 will give a window whose bottom left corner is 100 pixels to the right and 200 pixels up from the bootm left corner of the screen.

• --login

  Make GNOME Terminal launch the shell in login mode (it will run all of your login initialization scripts in this mode).

• --nologin

  Make GNOME Terminal only launch a shell, without running any login initialization scripts. This is the default, unless you have selected