User Commands                                              vte(1)



NAME
     vte - virtual terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS
     vte [--antialias] [--audible] [--background=image] [--blink]
     [--color-cursor]  [--command=command]  [--console] [--debug]
     [--dingus]   [--display=display]    [--double-buffer]    [--
     font=font]   [--geometry=geometry]   [--highlight]  [--icon-
     title]  [--keep]   [--no-geometry-hints]   [--reverse]   [--
     scroll-background]    [--scrollback-lines]   [--shell]   [--
     termcap=terminal-type]      [--transparent]      [--working-
     directory=directory]

DESCRIPTION
     vte is simply a window wrapped  around  the  vte  embeddable
     terminal  emulation 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.







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     -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   certain  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.






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     -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
         applications running in the terminal request this.



     -k, --keep

         Toggle whether to keep program running  after  GTK  main
         loop.  Disabled by default.



     -n, --scrollback-lines

         Specify the number of scrollback lines.  Minumum  number
         of scrollback 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.





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     -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 DESCRIPTION
     vte is designed to emulate the xterm program provided by the
     X Consortium. 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% vte

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
     variables:

     VTEPROFILEMEMORY      Virtualize  memory  allocation   for
                             debugging purposes.







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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  ter-
                                     minal emulator



     /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte     Location of developer  docu-
                                     mentation



ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWvte                     
    
     Interface stability          Volatile                    
    


SEE ALSO
     gnome-terminal(1),   xterm(1),   libvte(3),   attributes(5),
     environ(5)

NOTES
     Written by  Johan  Steyn,  updated  by  Brian  Cameron,  Sun
     Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2007.











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