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Package: xterm (210-1bpo1) [backports]

X terminal emulator

xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly. This version implements ISO/ANSI colors and most of the control sequences used by DEC VT220 terminals.

This package provides four commands: xterm, which is the traditional terminal emulator; uxterm, which is a wrapper around xterm that is intelligent about locale settings (especially those which use the UTF-8 character encoding), but which requires the luit program from the xutils package; koi8rxterm, a wrapper similar to uxterm for locales that use the KOI8-R character set; and lxterm, a simple wrapper that chooses which of the previous commands to execute based on the user's locale settings.

A complete list of control sequences supported by the X terminal emulator is provided in /usr/share/doc/xterm.

The xterm program uses bitmap images provided by the xlibs-data package.

Those interested in using koi8rxterm will likely want to install the xfonts-cyrillic package as well.

Tags: User Interface: X Window System, Role: role::sw:utility, Interface Toolkit: Athena Widgets, Ncurses TUI, X Window System: Terminal Emulator

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  • dep: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0)
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  • dep: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1)
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    also a virtual package provided by libfreetype6-udeb
  • dep: libice6
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  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
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  • dep: libsm6
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  • dep: libx11-6
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    or xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
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  • dep: libxaw7 (>> 4.1.0)
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  • dep: libxext6
    X Window System miscellaneous extension library
    or xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
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  • dep: libxft2 (>> 2.1.1)
    FreeType-based font drawing library for X
  • dep: libxmu6
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  • dep: libxrender1 (>= 1:0.9.0.2)
    X Rendering Extension client library
  • dep: libxt6
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    or xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
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  • dep: xlibs-data
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  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
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    also a virtual package provided by zlib1g-udeb
  • rec: xutils
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