---
name: "io.elementary.terminal"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pantheon-terminal"
version: "8.1.0-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/io.elementary.terminal"
---

# io.elementary.terminal(1)

Modern terminal emulator from elementary project Pantheon Terminal is a beautiful and simple terminal emulator. It's designed to be set up with sane defaults and little to no configuration and follows the elementary OS Human Interface Guidelines.

## NAME

io.elementary.terminal - Modern terminal emulator from elementary project

**Pantheon Terminal** is a beautiful and simple terminal emulator. It's designed to be set up with sane defaults and little to no configuration and follows the elementary OS Human Interface Guidelines.

## SYNOPSIS

**io.elementary.terminal** \[*OPTION...*\]

## OPTIONS

- **-e**, **--execute**=*PATH*

  Execute the specified binary in a terminal

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help message and exit

- **-m**, **--minimized**

  Open a terminal in a minimized state

- **-t**, **--new-tab**

  Open a terminal tab

- **-v**, **--version**

  Print version info and exit

- **-w**, **--working-directory**=*PATH*

  Set the specified directory as the shell working directory on startup

- **-x**, **--commandline**=*COMMAND*

  Run the remainder of the line as a command in a terminal

## AUTHOR

Pantheon Terminal was written by Adrien Plazas \<kekun.plazas@laposte.net\>, Mario Guerriero \<mario@elementaryos.org\>, David Gomes \<david@elementaryos.org\>, Tom Beckmann \<tom@elementaryos.org\>, Akshay Shekher \<akshay@elementaryos.org\> et al.

This manual page was written by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff \<sergey@elementaryos.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).