vte(1)								   User Commands							    vte(1)

NAME

       vte - virtual terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS

       vte  [--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=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.

       -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.

       -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.

       -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:

       VTE_PROFILE_MEMORY      Virtualize memory allocation for debugging purposes.

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 emulator

       /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		     |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.

SunOS 5.11							    08 Nov 2007 							    vte(1)