fxterm(1)

📦 in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

🎀 fxterm — ok bestie, listen 🎀

so this is fxterm, straight out of the hxtools manual collection, and honestly? it's giving "one tiny script that does exactly one thing and slays at it." 💅

✨ Name ✨

fxterm — starts up an xterm but with a VGA color palette, and it's literally the cutest little shortcut ever. 🦋

🌸 Syntax 🌸

fxterm [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

💖 Description 💖

okay so fxterm is just a shortcut for the author's favorite xterm parameters — no cap, it's a preset wrapper and it knows it. 🫶

here's the whole glow-up it applies:

  • VGA console color selection (but full saturated, obvs — we do not do muted here 💀)
  • 80x25 screen, retro era realness
  • visual bell 🔔 (no beeping, we're polite)
  • scrollbar invisible — hidden, not gone, main character energy
  • optional font 🎀

💅 Options 💅

fr fr, all options are passed through to xterm — fxterm is not gatekeeping, it's just a messenger. 👑 see xterm(1) for the full details, iykyk.

  • -f name — picks an X bitmap font. classic. iconic. ⭐
  • -fa name — picks a fontconfig/freetype descriptor instead. fancy font girlie. 🌈
💀 warning-ish vibes: fxterm itself defines no options of its own — everything you hand it goes straight to xterm, so the behavior is whatever xterm does with it. no surprises invented here, bestie.

🦋 See also 🦋

mwah 💋 — this page came from hxtools, dated 2008-02-06. go forth and open a terminal that's prettier than everyone else's, bestie. 🎀✨

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