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http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php

A light xterm. And it's actually lighter! Not tabbed.

I got this working with a nice vga font from DOSEmu. See 9x15 versus DOSEMU's vga font. However, I learned that aterm does not support unicode. It suggested rxvt-unicode, and I got it working with a nice unicode vga font. See Unicode VGA font for that info.

• 2020-02-08 - 9.22 on Debian 9.9.0-i386-xfce-CD-1

• 2014-06-04 - 1.00.01 on Lubuntu 14.04

# -ls  start as a login shell, so it inherits aliases and such
export PS1=$PS1"\[\e]0;\H:\w\a\]" 
export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]' 
aterm -ls -fn 9x15 -bg black -fg gray -sl 10000 -geometry 113x46+0+0 $@

2020-02-08 - 9.22 ∞

\aterm-xterm  -fn 9x15

• Why wouldn't it have a fallback default font? That's insanity.
• I dunno, it seems nice enough. I'd have to get DOSEMU's vga font installed or something.
• The settings are in .Xresources.
• The version number has really incremented. I don't know if unicode is now supported.

• Why did it install rxvt-unicode-256color?

2014-06-04 - 1.00.01 ∞

• https://linuxreviews.org/Aterm ^[ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/*/http://linuxreviews.org/software/x11-terms/aterm/

  • Apparently you use ~/Xdefaults.aterm.txt
  • For some reason, man pages have no colour. xterm and aterm both use the exact same commandline, but aterm's man pages are black-and white. There is bolding, but no colour. In the regular terminal, xterm does show a coloured ls.

Fixing console colours ∞

Dark blue on black is unreadable to me.

1) Create/edit ~/.Xdefaults with this content:

! aterm
!   http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php
!
! Test changes with:
!   \xrdb  -load ~/.Xdefaults ; \aterm
!aterm*background:  console_black
!aterm*foreground:  console_white
!aterm*color0:      console_black
!aterm*color1:      console_bright_red
!aterm*color2:      console_bright_green
!aterm*color3:      console_bright_yellow
!aterm*color4:      console_bright_blue
!aterm*color5:      console_bright_magenta
!aterm*color6:      console_bright_cyan
!aterm*color7:      console_bright_white
!aterm*color8:      console_bright_black
!aterm*color9:      console_bright_red
!aterm*color10:     console_bright_green
!aterm*color11:     console_bright_yellow
!aterm*color12:     console_bright_blue
aterm*color12:     #6666ff
!aterm*color13:     console_bright_magenta
!aterm*color14:     console_bright_cyan
!aterm*color15:     console_bright_white

2) Make sure it's being loaded when you start X.

For Openbox, I added this line in my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

\xrdb  -load ~/.Xdefaults

Others reported that adding that into their ~/.xsession worked for them.

Setting the font ∞

See 9x15 versus DOSEMU's vga font

Last updated 2020-05-02 at 08:38:21