Terminal

The Terminal flag indicates that the window is a terminal window.

The flag is used in the context of the Swallow functionality which when enabled allows for terminal windows to be "swallowed" by X windows started from the command line. In simpler terms the window started from the command line takes the place of the terminal window.

The flag is named as such because the feature is primarily known for replacing terminal windows with a graphical window like xclock as an example. This is also the terminology used for the corresponding patch for dwm. In principle though it just means that this window is allowed to be swallowed by its children.

The NoSwallow flag can be set via client rules to prevent specific X windows from swallowing the terminal.

Back to Features > Flags > Swallow.