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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
-fg colour\n\t<\/td>\nForeground\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-bg colour\n\t<\/td>\nBackground\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-curfg colour\n\t<\/td>\nCursor foreground\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-curbg colour\n\t<\/td>\nCursor background\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-selfg colour\n\t<\/td>\nSelected text foreground\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-selbg colour\n\t<\/td>\nSelected text background\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-t title\n\t<\/td>\nTitle to appear in window tab\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-geom (width)x(height)\n\t<\/td>\nSize of the window\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-p settings-file\n\t<\/td>\nPersonalised settings you may have previously saved\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
command\n\t<\/td>\nA command to execute after Terminal starts up\n\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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: –<\/p>\n

Terminal -bg blue -fg white -t \"hostxyz\" \/bin\/telnet hostxyz<\/pre>\n
Have a look at the contents of \/etc\/rgb.txt<\/code> 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}