SYNOPSIS
wterm [ options ]DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the wterm application. Wterm is an X console based on RXVT, it has many features including fast transparency, nice scrollbars and image backgrounds.OPTIONS
-Note-In most cases, -option turns the option on, +option will turn it off. This may seem a little illogical, but such is life.
- -C
- Intercept console messages.
- -bd colour
- Border colour.
- -bg colour
- Set background colour.
- -cr colour
- Cursor colour.
- -display string
- X server to connect to.
- -e command [arguments]
- Open wterm and execute command.
- -fb fontname
- Use specified font for bold.
- -fg colour
- Set foreground colour.
- -fn fontname
- Use specified font for normal text.
- -gc GC
- GC function types - The type of context use when creating the pixmap window.
- -geometry geometry
- Size (in characters) and position of window.
- -/+hi
- Turn on/off highlight.
- -iconic
- Start wterm as an icon.
- -/+ls
- Turn on/off login shell.
- -n string
- Icon name for window.
- -name string
- Client instance, icon and title strings.
- -pixmap file
- Background pixmap
- -pr colour
- Pointer colour.
- -/+rv
- Turn on/off reverse video.
- -/+sb
- Turn on/off scrollbar.
- -/+sh
- Turn on/off shaded transparency.
- -/+si
- Turn on/off scroll-on-tty-output.
- -/+sk
- Turn on/off scroll-on-keypress.
- -sl number
- Number of scrolled lines to save.
- -/+sr
- Turn on/off scrollbar right.
- -/+st
- Turn on/off scrollbar without a trough.
- -title string
- Title name for window.
- -tn string
- Value of the TERM environment variable
- -/+tr
- Turn on/off transparency.
- -/+ut
- Turn on/off utmp inhibit.
- -/+vb
- Turn on/off visual bell.
- -/+wm
- Turn on/off window maker menu.
UTMP SUPPORT
Wterm has support for UTMP. This means that a user who using a wterm, is visible in the "who" command. In order for this to work, the wterm binary (located in /usr/bin/) is set with a group "utmp" and is set gid utmp.
If you find that UTMP support isn't working (your wterm's don't show up in a who), check the permissions of /var/run/utmp. They should look something like:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 8448 May 6 21:47 /var/run/utmp
This can be set with the following commands (as the root user):
chown root.utmp /var/run/utmp
chmod 664 /var/run/utmp
OTHER NOTES
You can change your font size on the fly in wterm with the following keyboard combinations:
Key Combination Function
shift & keypad "+" Make font larger
shift & keypad "-" Make font smaller
It's also worth noting that the keyboard combination shift & insert causes the current text selection to be inserted. Select a portion of text using your mouse cursor, and press the combination in wterm.
CREDITS
Author of xvt is John Bovey, authors of rxvt are Rob Nation, Mark Olesen, Oezguer Kesim and Geoff Wing, and author of wterm is an anonymous coder.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written for Debian GNU/Linux (but may be used by others) The original author was Mark Triggs <[email protected]>. Updates have been made by Jeff Stevens <[email protected]>.