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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Dumb gnome terminal question. Post 302336699 by Corona688 on Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 03:37:36 PM
Old 07-22-2009
here's some commandline options for gnome-terminal. If you need to execute a specific command when run, that'd be something like gnome-terminal --command ssh username@site
 

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gnome-display-properties(1)					   User Commands				       gnome-display-properties(1)

NAME
gnome-display-properties - customize GNOME display behavior SYNOPSIS
gnome-display-properties [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The GNOME display preference tool enables you to customize the screen resolution and refresh rate for your desktop. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the gnome-display-properties tool example% gnome-display-properties 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/gnome-display-properties Executable for gnome-display-properties ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-control-center(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007. SunOS 5.11 09 Nov 2007 gnome-display-properties(1)
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