Terminal configuration options
The „Terminal“ application has many built-in command line options. Help unfortunately, is not one of them. A few of the options are the same as those used by „xterm“, but these options are, for the most part, undocumented.
| -fg colour | Foreground |
| -bg colour | Background |
| -curfg colour | Cursor foreground |
| -curbg colour | Cursor background |
| -selfg colour | Selected text foreground |
| -selbg colour | Selected text background |
| -t title | Title to appear in window tab |
| -geom (width)x(height) | Size of the window |
| -p settings-file | Personalised settings you may have previously saved |
| command | A command to execute after Terminal starts up |
For example, say I wanted to launch „Terminal“ with a blue background, white foreground, a title of „hostxyz“ and automatically telnet to hostxyz, I would use the following syntax: –
Terminal -bg blue -fg white -t "hostxyz" /bin/telnet hostxyz
Have a look at the contents of /etc/rgb.txt for available colours. Once you’re happy with the colour combinations, you can save these from the „Settings/Save as Settings File“ menu option. You will then be able to launch „Terminal“ the next time with the -p option specifying this file.
You could of course place the command line in a shell script and create a (symbolic) link to the script on the Desktop. You could create separate scripts to automatically launch with different colours etc for different hosts you may need to log into.