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-utf-source package.
SEE ALSO¶
bdftobogl(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>.