NAME
wterm - lightweight terminal emulator for X
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.
SEE ALSO
Docs can be found in /usr/share/doc/wterm/. Also, take a look at
http://www.wterm.org/ for more information on wterm.
GC function types, the type of context use when creating the pixmap
window is a complex feature, and cannot be explained here in any depth
which would be useful. I suggest the manpage XCreateGC(3x), which is a
part of the xmanpages package.
The following manpages may also be of use:
xvt(1), rxvt(1).
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 <mrbump@debian.org>.
Updates have been made by Jeff Stevens <jeff@mossycup.com>.