Xfce Terminal (xfce4-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.
Xfce Terminal is based on the Vte terminal widget library, just like GNOME Terminal.
Xfce Terminal is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multiple tabs per window.
- Customizable toolbars, which can be changed using an integrated graphical toolbar editor.
- Ability to configure nearly every aspect of Terminal in the Preferences dialog plus a bunch of so called hidden options.
- Good integration with the Xfce desktop environment in particular, but also with every other Linux desktop.
- Session management support
- Real multihead support (both MultiScreen and Xinerama mode).
- Standards compliance.
- D-BUS based terminal service facility to minimize the overall resource usage.
- High degree of maintainability by making best use of GTK+ and GObject.
- Internationalization support.
Website: gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal
Support:
Developer: Benedikt Meurer, Francois Le Clainche, Nick Schermer, Igor Zakharov
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Xfce Terminal is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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