Right now every instance of Terminal that is running gets it's configuration from the same place. Thus if you change the font in one open terminal the font changes in all of them. I would like to have the ability to have independent configurations for each instance of Terminal or to at least have a way to start it up with an alternative config file (something like a -C <config> command line switch).
I'd like this. But not Profiles like in gnome-terminal which makes everything complicated in my opinion. I'd like something like -name with the old xterm. Command line parameter only. I think only power-users need such a thing and they can read the documentation. And it doesn't confuse newbies. -name would mean simply more configuration name spaces, so a Terminal started with -name foo and another Terminal started with -name foo shares the same configuration. This could be handy e.g. for a fullscreen terminal with a larger font (like for presentations). It's easier to start a Terminal -name presentation from a menu than fiddling with font options each time.
(In reply to comment #1) > I'd like something like -name with the old xterm. Command line parameter only. I think this is exactly what I am envisioning. If given the choice, I'd always rather have commandline switches for things like this.
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This feature would be very useful to me, as I want different configurations for dealing with mutt and ssh sessions to different remote computers. I hope it is implemented soon.
This would be an excellent feature. I too keep many terminal open at a time at work, most of which are ssh session to different firewalls and servers, and having the ability to use different appearances on each really helps me keep track of which is which at a glance. I'd be will to work on it with a little help and guidance.
I came over to xfce from gnome after Fedora 15 included gnome3. xfce is pretty good. But, Terminal lacks the ability to have each Terminal have its own colors and background. Yes, gnome-terminal still works on xfce on F15 and does allow that. But "works" is a stretch. It works only after I resize the gnome-terminal into something useful after gnome-terminal auto-shrinks. (See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670173 .) Thanks.
How about this? env XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/user_name/.config2 xfce4-terminal --disable-server
Created attachment 9144 Resolves #2266 Checked with TERMINALRC=PASTE_PATH_TO_TERMINALRC_HERE ./terminal/xfce4-terminal --disable-server
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