multi-aterm - a tabbed VT102 terminal emulator for X-Window

multi-aterm [options]

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.

-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

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.

/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.

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

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

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.