bterm1

Usage

Overview

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.