Multi Gnome Terminal User's Guide: Multi Gnome Terminal 1.5.0
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# 8. Terminal classes

`Multi Gnome Terminal`, like `Gnome Terminal`, allows you to have different configuration profiles to suit different uses (different start-up Tabs, background colors, presence, absence or position of scrollbars, and so on). These are known as "Classes".

To define a new "Class", invoke the Preferences dialog-box from the Settings menu. Select whatever settings and configuration options you prefer first (these changes will be made to your currently opened terminal, so you can see what they look like), and before closing the Preferences box, click the New button, and you will be prompted for a new name.

To activate a specific Class at program startup you can use the `--tclass` command line option (see below). If invoked with a new, undefined Class name, the new Class will be created, but with all default settings. It is generally better to create Classes through the Preferences dialog-box, where the current settings can be cloned.

To dynamically change the currently active Class, select Class from the Settings menu, and then choose from the sub-menu selections. Or the same can be done from the control Pop-up menu, accessed with CTRL-RightMouse.

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