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xfce4-terminal - Terminal Emulator

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


Configuration


Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can be configured using the shortcuts editor in the prefs dialog since 1.0.0 (requires libxfce4ui 4.18, see Preferences/Shortcuts), or by editing your ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm file for older versions.

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.

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Latest Release

  • xfce4-terminal 1.1.3 released (2024/02/29 15:25)

Read the CHANGELOG

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Source Code Repository

Reporting Bugs

  • Reporting Bugs – List of currently open bugs and instructions on how to submit new bug reports

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