vte(1) User Commands vte(1)NAMEvte - virtual terminal emulator
SYNOPSISvte [--antialias] [--audible] [--background=image] [--blink] [--color-
cursor] [--command=command] [--console] [--debug] [--dingus] [--dis‐
play=display] [--double-buffer] [--font=font] [--geometry=geometry]
[--highlight] [--icon-title] [--keep] [--no-geometry-hints] [--reverse]
[--scroll-background] [--scrollback-lines] [--shell] [--termcap=termi‐
nal-type] [--transparent] [--working-directory=directory]
DESCRIPTIONvte is simply a window wrapped around the vte embeddable terminal emu‐
lation control, which does most of the work for gnome-terminal. vte is
used mainly to test the control. Most users do not need to use vte
directly, but use gnome-terminal instead.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-2, --double-buffer
Toggle double buffering. Enabled by default.
-A, --antialias
Toggle antialiasing. The default is that of the current GTK+
default.
-a, --audible
Toggle audible bell on/off. If audible bell is enabled, visible
bell is disabled. If audible bell is disabled, visible bell is
enabled. Audible bell enabled by default.
-B, --background=image
Use image as background.
-b, --blink
Toggle cursor blinking. Enabled by default.
-C, --console
Open a "console" connection.
-c, --command=command
Fork the specified command.
-D, --dingus
Use dingus clicking: as the cursor moves over text matching a cer‐
tain pattern, the matched text is highlighted and the cursor
changes shape. Disabled by default.
-d, --debug
Toggle update debugging. Disabled by default.
--display=display
Specify the X display to use.
-f, --font=font
Specify the font to use. Default font is "Sans 12".
-G, --no-geometry-hints
Allow the terminal to be resized to any dimension, not constrained
to fit to an integer multiple of characters.
-g, --geometry=geometry
Set the size (in characters) and position.
-h, --highlight
Toggle highlighting. Disabled by default.
-i, --icon-title
Toggle whether to obey attempts to set the icon name, if applica‐
tions running in the terminal request this.
-k, --keep
Toggle whether to keep program running after GTK main loop. Dis‐
abled by default.
-n, --scrollback-lines
Specify the number of scrollback lines. Minumum number of scroll‐
back lines is 100. Default number of scrollback lines is 100.
-r, --color-cursor
Toggle whether to set cursor color to pale red. Disabled by
default.
--reverse
Reverse foreground and background colors.
-S, --shell
Toggle launching a shell. Enabled by default.
-s, --scroll-background
Toggle whether to scroll background image along with text. This
option is only useful when combined with the -B option. Disabled
by default.
-T, --transparent
Use transparent background. Overrides the -B option.
-t, --termcap=terminal-type
Specify the terminal type to emulate.
-w, --working-directory=directory
Specify the initial working directory of the terminal.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTIONvte is designed to emulate the xterm program provided by the X Consor‐
tium. In turn, xterm is an almost complete emulation of the DEC VT102
terminal. vte supports the same extensions to VT102 as those provided
by xterm, through special escape sequences.
xterm is an evolving program. Recent changes to xterm have been been
incorporated into vte. This includes emulation of the newer DEC VT220
escape sequences.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the Virtual Terminal Emulator
example% vteENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:
VTE_PROFILE_MEMORY Virtualize memory allocation for debugging pur‐
poses.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/vte Executable for virtual terminal emula‐
tor
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte Location of developer documentation
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │terminal/gnome-terminal │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOgnome-terminal(1), xterm(1), libvte(3), attributes(5), environ(5)NOTES
Written by Johan Steyn, updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems
Inc., 2004, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 08 Nov 2007 vte(1)
