lxterm(1)

💖 lxterm(1) — the General Commands Manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're doing the locale-sensitive wrapper for xterm and it's literally so much chiller than it sounds 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

lxterm — a locale-sensitive wrapper for xterm. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she picks the right terminal for you based on your locale and you don't even have to think about it 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lxterm [ xterm-options ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: lxterm is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program. she looks at your locale setting, does a little vibe check, and then invokes xterm, koi8rxterm(1), or uxterm(1) — whichever one is actually appropriate for you. no cap, she handles it ✨

every single argument you hand to lxterm gets passed straight through to xterm without processing. she does not touch them, she does not look at them, she simply forwards them. iconic behaviour honestly.

🚨 BUT. and this is important, bestie. do not specify the -class, -k8, or -u8 options, because those are used by koi8rxterm and uxterm. they are not yours to use here. hands off. 🙈

if you want the full lore on what those xterm-options actually do, go read the xterm manual page. she's right there. 💜

now, how does she decide which terminal to summon? the locale(1) utility is used to figure out the character set of your current locale. then:

1. if the character set is UTF-8 → uxterm gets invoked 🌈
2. if the character set is KOI8-R → koi8rxtem gets invoked
3. otherwise → 'plain' xterm gets invoked, simple as that

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Branden Robinson

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• locale(1)
• koi8rxterm(1)
• uxterm(1)
• xterm(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this absolute banger comes to you from the Debian Project, dated 2004-12-19, and it lives in section lxterm(1) of the manual. go forth and let the wrapper do the work for you 💖✨🦋