Shortcut to specific profile mate-terminal

guyaloni

11/17/23, 12:11 PM

As you can see, I have in the upper bar a shortcut to open mate terminal:

Here you can see the shortcut properties:

I have some profiles which I use frequently, and would like to have shortcuts for each one of them. I looked at the command help, but cannot find any parameter which indicates to open a specific profile terminal:

~ $ mate-terminal -h
Usage:
  mate-terminal [OPTION…]

Help Options:
  -h, --help                      Show help options
  --help-all                      Show all help options
  --help-terminal                 Show terminal options
  --help-window-options           Show per-window options
  --help-terminal-options         Show per-terminal options
  --help-gtk                      Show GTK+ Options
  --help-sm-client                Show session management options

Application Options:
  --disable-factory               Do not register with the activation nameserver, do not re-use an active terminal
  --load-config=FILE              Load a terminal configuration file
  --save-config=FILE              Save the terminal configuration to a file
  --display=DISPLAY               X display to use

MATE Terminal Emulator

Any idea?

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terdon

11/17/23, 12:24 PM

I found the man page for mate-terminal online, you should be able to read it with man mate-terminal, and it explains:

--profile=PROFILE-NAME
Use the given profile instead of the default profile

I'm guessing you would also see it in one of the help options you mention in our question. As the message you are quoting explains, you need to run e.g. mate-terminal --help-all or one of the other options given to see the full help message.

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