User:Akamar/Mlterm

Mlterm is Article description::a multilingual terminal emulator for X11, with support for various complex characters and bi-directional text layout.

Files

 * - Global (system wide) configuration files.
 * - Local (per user) configuration files.

During the emerge, example configuration files were installed into. These can be copied into the local config directory and used as a base for further configuration.

Color scheme
The file defines which RGB values color names such as   or   correspond to.

Fonts
There are several font configuration files, to configure different kinds of fonts:

Note that the correct font rendering engine needs to be enabled in :

Enabling anti-aliasing might make the font more visually appealing:

Mlterm supports selecting a font based on character range. An example configuration with Xft fonts could be:

Appearance
The scrollbar can be configured with the following settings:

Mlterm supports pseudo-transparency. It appears that adjusting alpha, brightness and contrast only works when Mlterm was emerged with the gtk USE flag.

Improper spacing
Improper spacing might be caused by the use of variable-width fonts without variable width option being enabled. If has proper spacing, variable-width fonts may be enabled in the configuration files: