7. 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 Use --login by default in the preferences dialog.

• --noutmp

  Indicates that this and the associated shell should not be registered in the system database of users logged into the computer.

• --utmp

  Indicates that the user wants this terminal to be registered in the system database of users logged into the computer (the utmp database). This is the default.

• --lastlog

  Always create a lastlog entry for each terminal login.

• --nolastlog

  Do not create a lastlog entry for each terminal login.

• --title TITLE, -t TITLE

  Makes GNOME Terminal use TITLE for the window caption.

• --termname TERMNAME

  Makes GNOME Terminal use TERMNAME as the value of the TERM environment variable.

• --start-factory-server

  Try to start the TerminalFactory service for this terminal (see below).

• --use-factory

  If there is already a terminal process started with --start-factory-server option, then running the command gnome-terminal --use-factory will create a new terminal window owned by the existing teminal process. In other words, it will have the same effect as choosing File->New terminal in the existing terminal.

  If there is no TerminalFactory running, then this option has no effect.

You can use more than one option at once: for example, on a machine with the text-based web browser Lynx installed, gnome-terminal --title Web --command lynx will open a GNOME Terminal which starts up Lynx and has a titlebar which says "Web".