How to use
Launch.
Launch this application, the following window of title bar
appears.

Here, the figure put into parentheses is the name of device file
of terminal that MuTerminal was connected. In the above example, the
opening device file is '/dev/tt/p0'. Put into bracket is the
current character code on MuTerminal.
Menus.
MuTerminal has following menus.
[Terminal Menu] [Edit
Menu] [Coding
Menu][Help Menu]
Terminal Menu
- Switch Terminals
Switch focus to other MuTerminal (Same function with Switch
Terminals in
BeOS
standard Terminal). If one MuTerminal launched only, the function
is empty.
- Start New Terminal
Launch MuTerminal newly (Same function with Start New Terminal in
BeOS
standard Terminal). The maximum number of terminals that launch
simultaneously is 64. However, the number is include the number of
standard Terminal opened already and of the terminal opened by
telnet from outside.
- Preference
Display the Preference panel.
- Page Setup...
Open printer dialog and set up printer. (experimental)
- Print...
Print out Terminal buffer text. (experimental)
- Quit
Exit MuTerminal.
Edit Menu
- Copy
Copy the selected text area to clipboard.
- Paste
Paste the text which stored in clipboard into cursor location. But if
MuTerminal has selected text area, paste that text.
- Select All
Select all in the screen and the scroll buffer. If executed 'Copy' under this condition,
all characters on the screen and in the scroll buffer are copied.
- Clear All
Clear the screen and the reverse scroll buffer, and move the
cursor to home position.
Coding Menu
Set current character code that use Muterminal. MuTerminal is
decoding from those character code to UTF8 at display, and encoding
to those character code from UTF8 at key input. current version of
MuTerminal supports ISO-8859-1...10, MacRoman, Shift-JIS(Japanese),
EUC-jp(Japanese), UTF8 and ISO-2022-JP. ISO-2022-JP character code
useable under all character
code mode. Because ISO-2022-JP use of 7bit only.
Help Menu
- Help
Display help screen (this screen) by NetPositive.
- Show GPL
Display GNU Public License by NetPositive.
- Show Command Help...
Display shell command help file by NetPositive.
- About MuTerminal
Display about dialog.
About Preference panel.
You can customize MuTerminal on Preference panel. It launched by
"Preference" in Terminal Menu.
If you press 'Save' button, save settings to default. That settings
become effective at next launch. If you press 'Revert' button, annul
settings, and go back before open preference panel. If you want set
up now session only, change parameter and close preference
window.
If you press 'Save as File', open save dialog. You do double
click you saved file, MuTerminal use that settings at Launch.
Appearance tabs
- Half Width Font, size
Set up the font family and size of half width font displayed on
screen.
- Full Width Font, size
Set up the font family and size of full width font displayed on
screen.
- Text Fore/Back ground Color
Set up the text fore/background color of screen by color
control.
- Cursor Fore/Back ground Color
Set up the cursor fore/background color of screen by color
control.
- Selection Fore/Back ground Color
Set up the selected text fore/background color of screen by color
control.
- IM Fore/Back/Selection ground Color
Set up the Japanese Input Method text fore/background and Select sentence color of screen by color
control.
Mouse tabs
- Select region
Bind button for select text. Not functional when chose Disable.
- Paste text
Bind button for paste clipborad text to MuTerminal. Not functional when chose Disable.
- PopUp menu
Bind button for show sub menu (encoding menu). Not functional when chose Disable.
- Cursor Image
Set mouse cursor image. Now, you can choose I-Beam or Hand cursor.
- Dragging Copy
If you set this parameter, You can copy selected text to other (or MuTerminal) Application by mouse dragging. And you can also do it with control key stroke when you don't set this parameter.
Shell tabs
- Rows, Columns
Set up the number of rows and columns of screen. A unit of columns
are half font width.
- Shell
Set up the path of shell at launching MuTerminal (e.g. /bin/sh -login).
- History Size
Set Terminal buffer size.
Language tabs
- Character code at launch
Set up the character code using on MuTerminal at next launch.
Current session's character code won't be changed.
- GUI Language
Set up the language in menubar, and Preference panel.
Unlike Character code, change will be reflected on MuTerminal itself and Preference Panel immediately.
- Input Method Aware
If you check box, you use japanese input method in MuTerminal.
Others TIPS
Drag and Drop Tracker icons.
Drag and Drop Tracker icons to MuTerminal Window, get full path
name those icons.
Keyboard Operations
Type Up/Down allow key with SHIFT-KEY, scroll up/down screen by a
line, Type PageUp/PageDown key with SHIFT-KEY, scroll up/down screen
by a page.
Mouse Operations
You can paste text just as xterm. Select text region and press mouse button which binds paste functions, you can paste text without clipboard.
And you can paste text to other application with mouse drag. Drags selected region with control key stroke, or set 'Dragging mouse' check box at preference panel.
Commandline Options
You can add some command line option to MuTerminal.
usage: MuTerminal [OPTION [VALUE]] [SHELL]
- -p, --preference
Load preference file.
- -t, --title
Set up the Title of MuTerminal. You can add '%s' argument to string (printf() style). First argument is device name. Second argument is coding name.
e.g.) MuTerminal -t 'fooTerm (%s) [%s]' --- fooTerm (p0) [UTF8]
- -geom, --geometry
Set up the window size and location of MuTerminal. An Example of geometry is "80x25+100+100".
- -fg, --text-fore-color, -bg, -text-back-color
Set up text fore/back color of MuTerminal. Examples of color are "#FF00FF" and "purple".
- -curfg, --cursor-fore-color, -curbg --cursor-back-color
Set up cursor fore/back color of MuTerminal.
- -selfg, --select-fore-color, -selbg --select-back-color
Set up selected area fore/back color of MuTerminal.
- -imfg, --im-fore-color, -imbg --cursor-back-color, -imsel, -im-select-color
Set up input method fore/back/select_word color of MuTerminal.
- shell command
Set up the path of shell at launching MuTerminal
e.g.) MuTerminal -t syslog /bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog --- syslog monitor.
MuTerminal Help File : usage.html,v
Last modified : 2000/02/07 11:20:19