KXTERM(1)

💖 KXTERM(1) — the CERN KUIP terminal emulator 💖

okay so real talk, this page lives in the General Commands Manual, and the program is literally called kxterm 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

kxterm — the CERN KUIP terminal emulator, bestie. that's the whole vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kxterm [class] [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: kxterm is a terminal emulator that ate and left no crumbs, because it combines the best features of the (now defunct 😭) Apollo DM pads — think input and transcript pads, automatic file backup of the transcript pad, string search in pads, etc. — with the Korn shell emacs-style command line editing and command line recall mechanism. it's giving the best of both worlds, honestly 👑

and if you want more deets about the program? please see the online help available from the kxterm Help menu. she's got lore, go read it 💅

kxterm has a number of X resources which can be set by the user; these are listed in the online help and in the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/KXterm, where the default values are set. noted 📝

okay now this part is important so pay attention bestie — when kxterm is acting as a client for another application, the desired X resource should be prefixed by "Kx" plus the class name of the application. so for application "Foo" the kxterm resource class would be KxFoo, and one would set KxFoo*background, etc. the way that's so specific and for what 😭💀

and one can also set the resource class of a kxterm window via the command-line with the class argument ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -font fn — specifies the font used by kxterm. the font fn must be an XLFD (X Logical Font Description), as for example displayed by the xlsfonts program. no cap, it has to be XLFD or nothing 🌈
• -geometry geom — specifies the preferred size and position of the kxterm window; see X(7x) for details. size AND position, she does both 💅
• -h, -help — show a summary of options. your little cheat sheet 🫶
• -iconic — specifies that the window manager should start kxterm as an icon. she starts small 🎀
• -n iconname — specifies the name of the kxterm window in an iconic state. her little nickname for when she's minimized 🦋
• -name name — specifies both the title and the iconized name of the kxterm window. two for the price of one, we love efficiency ✨
• -pid pid — specifies the process ID of the program that kxterm should act as a client for. main character energy, she's a client now 👑
• -prompt prompt — sets the prompt displayed in the input pad of the program. the little message that hypes you up before you type 🥺
• -tfont fn — specifies the font used by text boxes, the input pad, and the transcript pad of the program. this should probably be a fixed-width font like "courier" or "fixed". probably — like it's a suggestion but also it's a suggestion 🙈
• -title title — sets the title of the kxterm window to title. name her whatever you want, periodt 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• xlsfonts(1) — a program to list available fonts on an X server
• paw++(1) — a program using kxterm for its command interface
• the online help available from kxterm's Help menu

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). absolute icon behavior, we stan 💜

kisses bestie, that's the whole page 🍓 this beautiful thing was dated January 24, 2003, it's part of the General Commands Manual on the Debian GNU/Linux system, and it's filed under KXTERM(1) — go forth and emulate terminals, slay 💅✨🧚