UXTERM(1)

💖 UXTERM(1) 💖

X Window System ✨ X terminal emulator for Unicode (UTF-8) environments ✨ yes bestie, this is that manual page, and we are reading it together 🫶

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🌈 NAME 🌈

uxterm — the X terminal emulator for Unicode (UTF-8) environments 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

uxterm [ xterm-options ]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. uxterm is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program — meaning it literally just calls xterm but with the “UXTerm” X resource class set. that's the whole glow-up. 🌟

Every single argument you hand to uxterm gets passed straight to xterm without processing — no touching, no editing, just vibes forwarded. BUT heads up: you should not specify the -class and -u8 options, because the wrapper is already using those for itself. that's its job, not yours, bestie 🙈

wanna know more about xterm-options? go read the xterm manual page, it has the full tea. ☕

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your environment's locale settings (peep the “ENVIRONMENT” section below 👀) get used to figure out the locale's character set. if nobody can determine the current locale, then the locale “en_US” is assumed — that's the English language as used in the territory of the United States 🇺🇸. then the locale(1) utility gets called to check whether your system actually supports the locale that got picked. if it doesn't, uxterm will exit with an error and report the output of locale. not subtle, not sorry. 😭

⚠️ Note: uxterm may produce unexpected results if the current locale is set to one in which the UTF-8 character encoding is not supported, or if fonts using the ISO 10646-1 character set are not available. so like… vibe check your locale first, fr fr 💀

on a Debian system, the “xfonts-base” package is what provides the fonts that uxterm uses by default — that's the plug 🔌. and if you wanna change the fonts uxterm uses? go edit the /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm file. that's the spot. 📝

oh and psst — there's a similar wrapper called koi8rxterm(1) available for KOI8-R environments. sibling energy 👯

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🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

• LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG — the values of these variables get checked, in order, to determine the character set used by the current locale. order matters, so don't skip around 💫

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Thomas Dickey — the icon, the moment, the main character 🫡

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• locale(1)
• locale(7)
• koi8rxterm(1)
• xterm(1)

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k bye bestie, that's the whole page 🎀 this was Patch #411, dated 2026-08-24 — X Window System, UXTERM(1). slay, ate, no crumbs left 💅✨