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
- Introduction to Terminal – What is a terminal emulator and what makes the Xfce terminal emulator special
- Getting Started – Working for the first time with the Xfce Terminal emulator
- Usage – Basic handling of the application
- Drop-down Window – How to use a drop-down terminal window
Configuration
- Preferences – Configuring the terminal emulator
- Command-line Options – Parameters for starting the terminal
- Advanced Topics – Hidden settings and environment variables
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can be configured by editing your ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm file.
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.
Latest Release
- xfce4-terminal 1.2.0 released (2026/03/08 12:16)xfce4-terminal 1.2.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/1.2/xfce4-terminal-1.2.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/1.2/xfce4-terminal-1.2.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/1.2/xfce4-terminal-1.2.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-terminal? ======================= Xfce4-terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarily for the Xfce desktop environment. It is a lightweight emulator based on the VTE widget, easy to use and provides an optional drop-down window (game-console style). Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start Release notes for 1.2.0 ======================= - build: Rename POTFILES.in to POTFILES - build: Make xsltproc dependency optional - Fix previous commit - Delay tab title update on contents changed to avoid high cpu usage - cleanup: Move function and set static qualifier - Do not escape non-ASCII characters in dnded uris - build: Add 'doc' configure option - Escape special characters in dnded uris - build: Fix typo in optimization level - doc: Add "bugs" section to man page - search: Shift+Enter for Next; remove throttling - wayland: dropdown: Handle output disconnection - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - Allow handling middle click event by terminal applications - Fix shift + right click propagation to terminal apps - README.md: Add uninstall info - Fix hyperlink-related leaks in terminal_widget_get_link - Remove autotools build - Use XfceNotebook from libxfce4ui - Fix "Copy link address" on kwin_wayland - prefs-dialog: Expose hidden setting 'misc-highlight-urls' - cleanup: Remove '== (TRUE|FALSE)' - Update README after switchover to meson - Adjust include order for FreeBSD - meson-build: Fix manpage install dir - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese
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