Black Window is a minimalistic X11 terminal emulator for pseudo-terminal devices forked from st
.
- UTF8 channel communication with slaves.
- Display of Unicode characters (granted that necessary fonts installed on the system).
- Alternate screen (for programs like
less (1)
).
fontconfig
(libfontconfig
)freetype2
(libfreetype
)X11
(libX11
).
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.