GNOME Terminal-2.2.2

Introduction to GNOME Terminal

The GNOME Terminal package contains the console. This is useful for executing programs from a command prompt.

Installation of GNOME Terminal

Install GNOME Terminal by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --localstatedir=/var/lib \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts ScrollKeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

Contents

The GNOME Terminal package contains gnome-terminal.

Description

gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal provides the command prompt in the GNOME environment.