Standardx-terminal-emulatoroptions
These options work as specified in Debian Policy §11.8.3.
-TTITLE
Set the title of the terminal to TITLE, as specified in Debian Policy. Equivalent to xterm-TTITLE
or gnome-terminal-tTITLE.
-eCOMMAND [ARGUMENTS...]
Run COMMAND with arguments ARGUMENTS in the terminal, and stop parsing options after -e. Equivalent
to xterm-eCOMMANDARGUMENTS.
If there are no ARGUMENTS, gnome-terminal.wrapper will attempt to find the COMMAND in the PATH. If
found, it is used as the command to execute, as specified in Debian Policy. If not found, as an
extension, gnome-terminal.wrapper will treat the COMMAND as a shell command instead, running it as if
via sh-cCOMMAND. This is similar to the behaviour of xterm-e, but is not guaranteed to be
implemented by all x-terminal-emulator implementations.
Otherwise equivalent to gnome-terminal--COMMANDARGUMENTS.
Non-standardoptions
These options are provided for convenience, increasing command-line compatibility with xterm(1) and/or
gnome-terminal(1), but are not guaranteed to be available in other x-terminal-emulator implementations.
Using these options is discouraged: to obtain functionality beyond the standardized x-terminal-emulator
interface, invoke a specific terminal such as gnome-terminal(1) or xterm(1) directly.
-displayX11DISPLAY
If using X11, select X11DISPLAY as the X11 display to use. If using native Wayland, this option is
ignored.
It is preferable to set the DISPLAY and/or WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variables instead.
-geometryCOLSxROWS+X+Y
Set the window size to COLS × ROWS at position (X,Y). Equivalent to gnome-terminal--geometry=COLSxROWS+X+Y.
-ls Using this option is treated as a command-line parsing error. In xterm(1) it would run a login
shell, but gnome-terminal(1) does not have that feature.
+ls Accepted, with a warning, but otherwise ignored. gnome-terminal(1) never runs a login shell.
-nICON
Accepted for command-line compatibility with xterm(1), but ignored.
-nameNAME
Select NAME as a gnome-terminal(1) profile, if it exists. Equivalent to gnome-terminal--window-with-profile=NAME.
-h, --help
Show gnome-terminal's help.
Any other option
Passed as-is to gnome-terminal.