--background COLOUR
Used to specify the background colour for the terminal at startup. The COLOUR can be any form accepted by your windowing system.
--tclass CLASSNAME
Specifies the terminal class used to configure the terminal at startup.
--command CMD, -e CMD
Runs the CMD command at startup time.
--execute CMD ARGS, -x CMD ARGS
Executes the command CMD with its arguments ARGS on startup. No arguments beyond this one will be processed by the terminal. This behaviour mimics the xterm -e behaviour.
--font FONT
Sets the font of the terminal to FONT
--foreground COLOUR
Sets the foreground of the terminal to COLOUR.
--geometry GEOMETRY
Specifies the startup geometry for this terminal. The geometry specifies the desired width and height in terminal characters. For example: --geometry=80x40 will create an eighty-column by forty-line terminal.
FIXME: LInk to gnome-libs document on GEOMETRY specifications when it is written
--login
Make gnome-terminal launch the shell in login mode (it will run all of your login initialization scripts in this mode).
--nologin
Make gnome-terminal only launch a shell, without running any login initialization scripts.
--noutmp
Indicates that this and the associated shell should not be registered in the system database of users logged into the computer.
--utmp
Indicates that the user wants this terminal to be registered in the system database of users logged into the computer (the utmp database). This is the default.
--lastlog
Always create a lastlog entry for each terminal login.
--lastlog
Do not create a lastlog entry for each terminal login.
--title TITLE, -t TITLE
Makes GNOME terminal use TITLE for the window caption.
--termname TERMNAME
Makes GNOME terminal use TERMNAME as the value of the TERM environment variable.
--start-factory-server
Try to start the TerminalFactory service for this terminal.
--use-factory
Try to create a terminal window from the TerminalFactory service.
You can use more than one option at once: for example, on a machine with the text-based web browser Lynx installed, 'gnome-terminal --title Web --command lynx' will open a gnome-terminal which starts up Lynx and has a titlebar which says "Web".