NAME
multi-aterm - a tabbed VT102 terminal emulator for X-Window
SYNOPSIS
multi-aterm [options]
DESCRIPTION
multi-aterm is a terminal emulator. It is based on aterm 0.4.2,
features most of functionalties of aterm (pseudo fast-transparency,
next-step look scroll bar) and mostly and notebook functionality. Thus,
you can have several terminals in the same window. Each terminal can be
configure (name, background, ...) with a configuration file. Like
aterm, it aims to be light and fast and desktop independant, meaning
KDE or GNOME are not required. Several configurations files can be
used. Specific files override resources of standard files, and options
override resources found in files.
OPTIONS
-iconic
-display|-d displayname
-tn termname
value of the TERM environment variable
-geometry|-g geometry
geometry at startup
-rv|+rv
reverse video
-tr|+tr
transparent background
-sb|+sb
scrollbar
-sr|+sr
scrollbar on right
-trsb|+trsb
transparent scrollbar
-st|+st
scrollbar without a trough
-si|+si
scroll-on-tty-output inhibit
-sk|+sk
scroll-on-keypress
-tint color tinted transparency color
-sh % make transparent background x% darker
-bgtype type
transformation type for background pixmap
-tinttype type
function applied for background tinting
-txttype type
function applied for text drawing
-pixmap file[;geometry]
background pixmap, tranparency must be turn off
-name name
client instance, icon, and title strings
-n fontname
icon name for window
-iconic|+iconic
start iconic
-sl number
number of scrolled lines to save
-tn name
value of the TERM environment variable
-fg color
foreground color
-bg color
background color
-ls|+ls
login shell
-bw number
border width
-mbw number
minimum number of columns stored in buffer
-ut|+ut
utmp inhibit
-vb|+vb
visual bell
-bd color
border color
-nt number
numbers of tab at startup
-fade fontname
make colors x% darker when aterm is loosing focus
-font fontname
normal text font
-fb fontname
bold text font
-cf file
resource configuration file
-C intercept console messages
X RESOURCES
Here is list of resources supported by multi-aterm. Each as a default
value assigned to it. multi-aterm support the XTerm class and
application name is materm. The first character of class components is
capitalized and the first letter of name components is in lowercase.
For example, XTerm.Foreground is a class component and
materm.foreground is a name component. Below is the list of resource :
XTerm.Geometry: geometry
set the geometry
XTerm.ReverseVideo: boolean
XTerm.Foreground: color
XTerm.Background: color
XTerm.LoginShell: boolean
XTerm.BorderWidth: number
XTerm.Scrollbar: boolean
XTerm.ScrollbarRight: boolean
XTerm.ScrollbarFloating: boolean
XTerm.ScrollbarTtyOutput: boolean
XTerm.ScrollbarTtyKeypress: boolean
XTerm.Transpscrollbar: boolean
XTerm.ScrollColor: color
XTerm.TroughColor: color
XTerm.Vt.Transparent: boolean
XTerm.Vt.Tinting: color
XTerm.Vt.Shading: amount
XTerm.Vt.BgType: type
XTerm.Vt.TintingType: type
XTerm.Vt.Pixmap: ile[;geometry]
XTerm.Vt.Title: name
XTerm.Vt.SaveLines: number
XTerm.TextType: type
XTerm.Name: name
XTerm.IconName: name
XTerm.TermName: name
XTerm.MinBufferWidth: number
XTerm.UtmpInhibit: boolean
XTerm.VisualBell: boolean
XTerm.BorderColor: color
XTerm.NbTerm: number
XTerm.Fading: amount
XTerm.Colorn: color
XTerm.ColorBD: color
XTerm.ColorUL: color
XTerm.Path: path
XTerm.FontName: fontname
XTerm.BoldFont: fontname
XTerm.Fontn: fontname
XTerm.MFont: fontname
XTerm.MFontn: fontname
XTerm.PointerColor: color
XTerm.CursorColor: color
XTerm.CursorColor2: color
XTerm.Bigfont_key: keysym
XTerm.Smallfont_key: keysym
XTerm.Cutchars: string
XTerm.Meta8: keysym
XTerm.Modifier: keysym
XTerm.Backspacekey: keysym
XTerm.Deletekey: keysym
XTerm.MapAlert: keysym
Example:
XTerm.Geometry: 80x25
XTerm.Scrollbar: True
XTerm.Vt.Transparent: True
XTerm.Vt.Shading: 70
XTerm.Vt.SaveLines: 300
materm.vt0.shading: 90
materm.vt0.title: me
materm.vt1.title: root
materm.vt1.saveLines: 20
Put those lines in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file or in a
configuration file you will load with -cf <file> at startup.
FILES
/etc/utmp
System file for login records.
/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
Color names.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
if enable at compiled time, this is the first configuration file
read.
~/.Xdefaults
if presents, resources read from this file override existing
resources.
~/.Xresources
if .Xdefaults was not found, try this one.
KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
You have several shortcut to ease the use of the app. Here is the lsit
of shortcut :
ctrl+alt+n : create a new terminal
ctrl+d : close a terminal (note this is a shell sequence)
shift+left_arrow: active left terminal
shift+right_arrow: active right terminal
shift+up_arrow: sroll up line by line
shift+down_arrow: sroll down line by line
shift+page_up: sroll up screen by screen
shift+page_down: sroll down screen by screen
ENVIRONMENT
BUGS
Transparency is global, not specific to a terminal
The same apply for the bgtype
Some problems with pseudo-terminal somethimes
Font size change is working very bad
This man page is not finished
AUTHOR
John Bovey
University of Kent, 1992, wrote the original Xvt.
Rob Nation <nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com>
very heavily modified Xvt and came up with Rxvt
Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk>
wrote the Greek Keyboard Input
mj olesen <olesen@me.QueensU.CA>
Wrote the menu system.
Project Coordinator (changes.txt 2.11 to 2.21)
Oezguer Kesim <kesim@math.fu-berlin.de>
Project Coordinator (changes.txt 2.21a to 2.4.5)
Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>
Rewrote screen display and text selection routines.
Project Coordinator (changes.txt 2.4.6 - )
Sasha Vasko <sashav@sprintmail.com>
branched rxvt with Alfredo Kojima additions to aterm.
Alexis <materm@tuxfamily.org>
Modifications of aterm to add tabbed terminals and notebook bar.