---
name: "qterminal"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "qterminal"
version: "2.1.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/qterminal"
---

# qterminal(1)

QT-based multitab terminal emulator

## NAME

qterminal - QT-based multitab terminal emulator

## SYNOPSIS

**qterminal** \[*OPTION*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

Qterminal is a Qt-based multitab terminal forked from QTermWidget, it is lightweight, open-source, specially designed for LXQt desktop environment.

The features of qterminal include: Split terminal horizontal and vertical, Multiple tab, Customized shortcut, Change color scheme.

- **-d**, **--drop**

  Start in "dropdown mode" (like Yakuake or Tilda)

- **-e**, **--execute** \<command\>

  Execute command instead of shell

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

  Print this help

- **-p**, **--profile**

  Load qterminal with specific options

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

  Prints application version and exits

- **-w**, **--workdir** \<dir\>

  Start session with specified work directory

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to \<https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal\>

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by ChangZhuo Chen \<czchen@debian.org\> for the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others).