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Xfce terminal

Xfce Terminal emulator

xterm is the OG X terminal emulator. Here we inaccurately but conveniently use it when talking of the terminal emulator provided by the Xfce desktop environment, xfce4-terminal.

• More about terminal emulators.

Keyboard shortcuts

Prefix Ctrl-Shift

• New tab - T
• Close tab - W
• New window - N
• Close window - Q
• Copy - C
• Paste - V

New tab and new window tripped me up for a while, before I found that they are the same as Firefox’s (Ctrl-T new tab, Ctrl-N new window); and that sorted out me for both.

Prefix C (Ctrl).

• Prev / next tab - Page up / down

On MacBook keyboards, Page up / down is Fn + up / down arrow.

Prefix Alt

• Go to tab - 1…9

Prefix Shift

• Scroll line up / down - Arrow

Preferences

Turn on “Disable all menu access keys (such as Alt + f)”, otherwise it gets in the way of emacs.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-terminal -np /shortcuts-no-mnemonics -t bool -s true

Turn off the nice thought but it get’s irritating after once too many a times option to show a dialog on paste.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-terminal -np /misc-show-unsafe-paste-dialog -t bool -s false

Use the system monospace font.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-terminal -np /font-use-system -t bool -s true

Increase line height.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-terminal -np /cell-height-scale -t double -s 1.1

Increase the default terminal width. Functionally 81 should be enough since my custom Emacs fill-column is 80, plus git diffs require one character gutter.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-terminal -np /misc-default-geometry -t string -s '90x24'

Disable scrollbar.

xfconf-query -c xfce4-terminal -np /scrolling-bar -t string -s TERMINAL_SCROLLBAR_NONE

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