/black-window

Minimalistic X11 terminal emulator for pseudo-terminal devices

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

Black Window

Black Window is a minimalistic X11 terminal emulator for pseudo-terminal devices forked from st.

Features

  • UTF8 channel communication with slaves.
  • Display of Unicode characters (granted that necessary fonts installed on the system).
  • Alternate screen (for programs like less (1)).

Dependencies

  • fontconfig (libfontconfig)
  • freetype2 (libfreetype)
  • X11 (libX11).

Readings

The original ECMA-48 standard (also approved as ISO/IEC 6429) describes the basic teletype terminal concepts.

xterm implements a set of control functions which are not officially part of the standard, but are used ubiquitously, so they are de-facto standards.