bterm(1)
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.
