bterm(1) General Commands Manual 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-utf-source package.
SEE ALSO
bdftobogl(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>.
BOGL
31 March 2002 bterm(1)
