Launch application that run on a terminal with customized xfterm4 properties

[Alexander Toresson]

On 12/17/05, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao <marcelpaulo+l at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alexander Toresson wrote on Dec, 17:
>
> [...]
>
> > > I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a
> > > launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized
> > > terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mutt and mc within a
> > > taller terminal window, without menu and scroll bars. If the program doesn't
> > > run on a terminal, like xconsole, for example, I just need to add a -geometry
> > > argument. I can't figure out how to do something similar to programs that run
> > > on a terminal.
>
> [...]
>
> > xfterm4 is a script that starts a terminal. The options you pass to it
> > will be passed to the app it runs (afaik). At least find out what
> > terminal it runs and check the docs of that terminal before asking.
>
> Thank you very much for kicking me to the right direction, Alexander.  I can
> find my way home now. I'll post the results back for reference, so that other
> Xfce newbies like myself won't have to bother this list again, at least not
> with this question...
>

Sorry for having sounded so harsh, but this is actually a quite common
question. It's even in the FAQ:
http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en#xfterm4

Regards, Alexander Toresson