XTERMSET(1)

💖 XTERMSET 💖

okay bestie, so xtermset is the manual page for the General Commands Manual girlie herself — she lets you glow up your xterm window straight from the command line ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xtermset — change settings of an xterm

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xtermset [-option ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea, bestie: xtermset lets you change the characteristics of an xterm window from the command line. No GUI clicking, no drama, just vibes and flags 💅

And like, the best part? most options have the same names as those that you would give xterm at startup — so if you already know your xterm flags, you're literally already fluent. iykyk 😌

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so this is the part where we go through EVERY. SINGLE. FLAG. no skipping, no skimming, we're thorough in this house 🫶

• -store [<filename>] — this one will save all the other command line options you gave it to filename. If filename is omitted then the options will be written to ~/.xtermsetrc. it's giving "remember my settings for next time" 💾
• -default [<filename>] — this one will load options from the specified filename. If the filename is omitted then the options will be loaded from ~/.xtermsetrc. and heads up bestie: options specified on the command line preceed those that are in the options file. yes, "preceed." that's what it says. iconic typo behavior, we keep it fr fr 👑
• -f, -force — so xtermset normally checks if you are using it on a correct terminal (xterm (derivative) or dtterm (derivative)). With this option you can override this checking. it's the "i know what i'm doing, let me in" flag 🔓
• -T string, -title string — Sets the window title. your window, your name, main character energy 🎬
• -n string — Sets the icon name. tiny name, big personality 🎀
• -fg color — Sets the VT100 foreground color. 🎨
• -bg color — Sets the VT100 background color. 🖌️
• -mousefg color — Sets the mouse pointer foreground color. your cursor said "i'm also fashion" 🖱️
• -mousebg color — Sets the mouse pointer background color. 💅
• -tekfg color — Sets the Tektronix emulation window foreground color. yes we're coloring the Tektronix window too, no one gets left out 💜
• -tekbg color — Sets the Tektronix emulation window background color. 🌈
• -cr color — Sets the text cursor color. that little blinking icon deserves a moment ⭐
• -hc color — Sets the color for highlighted (selected) text. selection never looked so good ✨
• -fn font-spec, -font font-spec — Sets the font. glow up your glyphs 🔤
• -geom geometry-spec, -geometry geometry-spec — Sets the window size and position; see X(1) for details. 📐

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.xtermsetrc — the home of your saved settings, the little diary of your terminal preferences 💖

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bash(1), xterm(1), X(1)

go read those too bestie, they're the extended universe 📚

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💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the part where we're honest, no cap:

• -geom does not support offsets from the left or bottom of the screen. 🙈
• If the geometry-spec isn't in the correct format, the output will be strange. like, strange strange. forewarned is forearmed, bestie 😭

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Breyten Ernsting (bje@dds.nl)
• Decklin Foster (decklin@home.com)

absolute legends, we stan 🫶

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅

this was xtermset(1) from the User Commands manual, dated Dec 2000 — yeah she's vintage but she still slays, periodt ✨