bterm(1)
NAME
bterm - framebuffer terminal emulator
SYNOPSIS
bterm -f font.bgf [-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.
- -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-utfsource package.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>.