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Terminal Emulator (xfce4-terminal)

Introduction

Xfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.

Introduction to Terminal – What is a terminal emulator and what makes the Xfce terminal emulator special
Getting Started – Working for the first time with the Xfce Terminal emulator
Usage – Basic handling of the application
Drop-down Window – How to use a drop-down terminal window

Configuration

Preferences – Configuring the terminal emulator
Command-line Options – Parameters for starting the terminal
Advanced Topics – Hidden settings and environment variables

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can be configured by editing your ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm file.

If you want to disable Alt+<N> shortcuts that switch between tabs, do not comment out or delete the corresponding entries in the “accels.scm” file. Just replace the field values with blanks: “”.

Performance Issues

Xfce Terminal is based on the Vte terminal widget library, just like gnome-terminal. Vte is probably not the fastest terminal emulation library on earth, but it's one of the best when it comes to Unicode support, and not to forget, it's actively developed. That said, performance is still an important issue for a terminal emulator and Vte with font-antialiasing enabled can be very slow even on decent systems. Xfce Terminal therefore offers a possibility to explicitly disable anti-aliasing for the terminal font. If you are experiencing problems with the terminal rendering speed, you might want to disable the anti-aliasing for the terminal font.