NAME
bterm - framebuffer terminal emulator
SYNOPSIS
bterm -f font.bgf [-s scale] [-l locale] [program]
DESCRIPTION
bterm is a terminal emulator for the Linux framebuffer. It supports multibyte locales and wide characters, in addition to basic terminal features such as cursor positioning.
OPTIONS
- -f font.bgf
-
Specify the font. BGF fonts are produced by bdftobogl(1) from standard BDF font files.
- -s scale
-
Specify the font scale factor, 0 for auto.
- -l locale
-
Specify a locale for bterm and processes run within it. The locale may also be specified normally in the environment. If a locale, especially one with a different character set than the current locale, will be used inside of bterm, it should be specified on the command line.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
- 0
-
Successful completion.
- 1-125
-
Exit code from executed program
- 127
-
Failed to exec program
- >=128
-
Program terminated by signal.
NOTES
On Debian systems, one appropriate BDF font can be found in the bf-utf-source package.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]>.