To change your preferences go to :menuselection:`File --> Preferences`. To change your font press the :guilabel:`Change` button next to the :guilabel:`font` label. The :guilabel:`Color scheme` field lets you say change how different colored things in the terminal colors appear. The :guilabel:`Widget style` lets you overwrite the system widget style with something other than system default. The :guilabel:`Scrollbar position` lets you move the scrollbar to the left or right or remove it entirely. The :guilabel:`Tabs position` moves the bar to that part of the window of qterminal. The :guilabel:`Keyboard cursor shape`changes the shape of the cursor between block cursor a large block, underline cursor a small underline, or IBeamCursor which is quite small like a | character.
To toggle showing the menubar check/uncheck the :guilabel:`Show the menubar` checkbox. The checkbox :guilabel:`Hide tab bar with only one tab` hides the tab bar when you only have one tab. The checkbox :guilabel:`Limit tab width` limits how wide a tab would be how be and the filed next to it is how wide to limit the width of tabs.The :guilabel:`Show a border around the current terminal` shows a border around the terminal. The checkbox :guilabel:`Show terminal size on resize` toggles showing the terminal size on resizing the window.
To toggle showing the menubar check/uncheck the :guilabel:`Show the menubar` checkbox. The checkbox :guilabel:`Hide tab bar with only one tab` hides the tab bar when you only have one tab. The checkbox :guilabel:`Limit tab width` limits how wide a tab would be how be and the filed next to it is how wide to limit the width of tabs.The :guilabel:`Show a border around the current terminal` shows a border around the terminal. The checkbox :guilabel:`Show terminal size on resize` toggles showing the terminal size on resizing the window. To have support for languages with both right to left and left to right text check the :guilabel:`Enable bi-directional text support`.
The field :guilabel:`Application transparency` gives you the percent transparent for the full application transparency. The feild :guilabel:`Terminal transparency` is how transparent to make the terminal. Note you will need to enable the compton compositor for this function properly. To select a background image for your terminal press the :guilabel:`Select` button next to :guilabel:`Background image:`. The field :guilabel:`Start with preset` lets you choose how many terminal splits to have when you start up qterminal.
