-C | This option indicates that this window should receive console output. | help + man |
-Sccn | This option allows xterm to be used as an input and output channel for an existing program and is sometimes used in specialized applications. | help + man |
-T string | This option specifies the title for xterm's windows. | help + man |
-b number | This option specifies the size of the inner border (the distance between the outer edge of the characters and the window border) in pixels. | help + man |
-baudrate rate | Set the line-speed, used to test the behavior of applications that use the line-speed when optimizing their output to the screen. | help + man |
-bcf milliseconds | Set the amount of time text cursor is off when blinking via the cursorOffTime resource. | help + man |
-bcn milliseconds | Set the amount of time text cursor is on when blinking via the cursorOnTime resource. | help + man |
-bd color | This option specifies the color to use for the border of the window. | help + man |
-bg color | This option specifies the color to use for the background of the window. | help + man |
-bw number | This option specifies the width in pixels of the border surrounding the window. | help + man |
-cc classrange | specify additional character classes | help |
-class string | This option allows you to override xterm's resource class. | help + man |
-cr color | This option specifies the color to use for text cursor. | help + man |
-display displayname | This option specifies the X server to contact; | help + man |
-e command | command to execute | help |
-fa pattern | This option sets the pattern for fonts selected from the FreeType library if support for that library was compiled into xterm. | help + man |
-fb fontname | This option specifies a font to be used when displaying bold text. | help + man |
-fc fontmenu | Specify the initial font chosen from the font menu. | help + man |
-fd pattern | This option sets the pattern for double-width fonts selected from the FreeType library if support for that library was compiled into xterm. | help + man |
-fg color | This option specifies the color to use for displaying text. | help + man |
-fi fontname | This option sets the font for active icons if that feature was compiled into xterm. | help + man |
-fn fontname | This option specifies the font to be used for displaying normal text. | help + man |
-fs size | This option sets the pointsize for fonts selected from the FreeType library if support for that library was compiled into xterm. | help + man |
-fw fontname | This option specifies the font to be used for displaying wide text. | help + man |
-fwb fontname | This option specifies the font to be used for displaying bold wide text. | help + man |
-fx fontname | This option specifies the font to be used for displaying the preedit string in the “OverTheSpot” input method. | help + man |
-geometry geom | This option specifies the preferred size and position of the VTxxx window; | help + man |
-help | This causes xterm to print out a verbose message describing its options, one per line. | help + man |
-iconic | This option indicates that xterm should ask the window manager to start it as an icon rather than as the normal window. | help + man |
-into windowId | Given an X window identifier (an integer, which can be hexadecimal, octal or decimal according to whether it begins with "0x", "0" or neither), xterm will reparent its top-level shell widget to that… | help + man |
-kt keyboardtype | This option sets the keyboardType resource. | help + man |
-lcc path | File name for the encoding converter from/to locale encodings and UTF-8 which is used with -lc option or locale resource. | help + man |
-leftbar | Force scrollbar to the left side of VT100 screen. | help + man |
-lf filename | logging filename (use '-' for standard out) | help + man |
-mc milliseconds | This option specifies the maximum time between multi-click selections. | help + man |
-ms color | This option specifies the color to be used for the pointer cursor. | help + man |
-n string | This option specifies the icon name for xterm's windows. | help + man |
-name string | This option specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name. | help + man |
-nb number | This option specifies the number of characters from the right end of a line at which the margin bell, if enabled, will ring. | help + man |
-pf fontname | This option specifies the font to be used for the pointer. | help + man |
-report-charclass | Print a report to the standard output showing information about the character-classes which can be altered using the charClass resource. | help + man |
-report-colors | Print a report to the standard output showing information about colors as xterm allocates them. | help + man |
-report-fonts | Print a report to the standard output showing information about fonts which are loaded. | help + man |
-report-icons | Print a report to the standard output showing information about pixmap-icons which are loaded. | help + man |
-report-xres | Print a report to the standard output showing the values of boolean, numeric or string X resources for the VT100 widget when initialization is complete. | help + man |
-rightbar | Force scrollbar to the right side of VT100 screen. | help + man |
-selbg color | This option specifies the color to use for the background of selected text. | help + man |
-selfg color | This option specifies the color to use for selected text. | help + man |
-sh number | scale line-height values by the given number. | help + man |
-sl number | This option specifies the number of lines to save that have been scrolled off the top of the screen. | help + man |
-ti termid | Specify the name used by xterm to select the correct response to terminal ID queries. | help + man |
-title string | This option specifies the window title string, which may be displayed by window managers if the user so chooses. | help + man |
-tm string | This option specifies a series of terminal setting keywords followed by the characters that should be bound to those functions, similar to the stty(1) program. | help + man |
-tn name | This option specifies the name of the terminal type to be set in the TERM environment variable. | help + man |
-version | This causes xterm to print a version number to the standard output, and then exit. | help + man |
-xrm resourcestring | This option specifies a resource string to be used. | help + man |
-ziconbeep percent | beep and flag icon of window having hidden output | help + man |
-132 | Normally, the VT102 DECCOLM escape sequence that switches between 80 and 132 column mode is ignored. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ah | This option indicates that xterm should always highlight the text cursor. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ai | This option disables active icon support if that feature was compiled into xterm. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-aw | This option indicates that auto-wraparound should be allowed, and is equivalent to setting the vt100 resource autoWrap to “true”. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-barc | This option, corresponding to the cursorBar resource, makes the cursor a bar instead of a box. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-bc | Turn on text cursor blinking. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-bdc | Set the vt100 resource colorBDMode to “false”, disabling the display of characters with bold attribute as color. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-cb | Set the vt100 resource cutToBeginningOfLine to “false”. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-cjk_width | Set the cjkWidth resource to “true”. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-cm | This option disables recognition of ANSI color-change escape sequences. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-cn | This option indicates that newlines should not be cut in line-mode selections. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-cu | This option indicates that xterm should work around a bug in the more(1) program that causes it to incorrectly display lines that are exactly the width of the window and are followed by a line… (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-dc | This option disables the escape sequence to change dynamic colors: the vt100 foreground and background colors, its text cursor color, the pointer cursor foreground and background colors, the… (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-emoji_width | Set the emojiWidth resource to “true”. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-en encoding | This option determines the encoding on which xterm runs. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-fbb | This option indicates that xterm should compare normal and bold fonts bounding boxes to ensure they are compatible. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-fbx | This option indicates that xterm should not assume that the normal and bold fonts have VT100 line-drawing characters. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-fullscreen | This option indicates that xterm should ask the window manager to let it use the full-screen for display, e.g., without window decorations. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-hc color | (see -selbg). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-hf | This option indicates that HP function key escape codes should be generated for function keys. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-hm | Tells xterm to use highlightTextColor and highlightColor to override the reversed foreground/background colors in a selection. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-hold | Turn on the hold resource, i.e., xterm will not immediately destroy its window when the shell command completes. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ie | Turn on the ptyInitialErase resource, i.e., use the pseudo-terminal's sense of the stty(1) erase value. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-im | Turn on the useInsertMode resource, which forces use of insert mode by adding appropriate entries to the TERMCAP environment variable. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-itc | Set the vt100 resource colorITMode to “false”, disabling the display of characters with italic attribute as color. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-j | This option indicates that xterm should do jump scrolling. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-jf | When doing jump-scrolling or related indexing, e.g., carriage returns, xterm will defer flushing screen-updates, to improve speed. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-k8 | This option sets the allowC1Printable resource. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-l | Turn logging on, unless disabled by the logInhibit resource. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-lc | Turn on support of various encodings according to the users' locale setting, i.e., LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG environment variables. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ls | This option indicates that the shell that is started in the xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell that it should read the… (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-maximized | This option indicates that xterm should ask the window manager to maximize its layout on startup. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-mb | This option indicates that xterm should ring a margin bell when the user types near the right end of a line. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-mesg | Turn off the messages resource, i.e., disallow write access to the terminal. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-mk_width | Set the mkWidth resource to “true”. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-nomap | This option disables the initial mapping of the terminal window. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-nul | This option disables the display of underlining. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-pc | This option enables the PC-style use of bold colors (see boldColors resource). (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-pob | This option indicates that the window should be raised whenever a Control-G is received. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-rca | This option enables cursor position adjustment during resize. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-rvc | This option disables the display of characters with reverse attribute as color. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-rw | This option indicates that reverse-wraparound should be allowed. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-s | This option indicates that xterm may scroll asynchronously, meaning that the screen does not have to be kept completely up to date while scrolling. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-samename | Does not send title and icon name change requests when the request would have no effect: the name is not changed. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-sb | This option indicates that some number of lines that are scrolled off the top of the window should be saved and that a scrollbar should be displayed so that those lines can be viewed. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-sf | This option indicates that Sun function key escape codes should be generated for function keys. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-si | This option indicates that output to a window should not automatically reposition the screen to the bottom of the scrolling region. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-sk | This option indicates that pressing a key while using the scrollbar to review previous lines of text should cause the window to be repositioned automatically in the normal position at the bottom of… (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-sm | This option, corresponding to the sessionMgt resource, indicates that xterm should set up session manager callbacks. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-sp | This option indicates that Sun/PC keyboard should be assumed, providing mapping for keypad “+” to “,”, and CTRL-F1 to F13, CTRL-F2 to F14, etc. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-t | This option indicates that xterm should start in Tektronix mode, rather than in VTxxx mode. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-tb | This option, corresponding to the toolBar resource, indicates that xterm should display a toolbar (or menubar) at the top of its window. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-u8 | This option sets the utf8 resource. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-uc | This option, corresponding to the cursorUnderLine resource, makes the cursor underlined instead of a box. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ulc | This option disables the display of characters with underline attribute as color rather than with underlining. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ulit | This option, corresponding to the italicULMode resource, disables the display of characters with underline attribute as italics rather than with underlining. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-ut | This option indicates that xterm should not write a record into the system utmp log file. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-vb | This option indicates that a visual bell is preferred over an audible one. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-wc | This option sets the wideChars resource. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-wf | This option indicates that xterm should wait for the window to be mapped the first time before starting the subprocess so that the initial terminal size settings and environment variables are correct. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-r | This option indicates that reverse video should be simulated by swapping the foreground and background colors. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-w number | This option specifies the width in pixels of the border surrounding the window. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-font font | This is the same as -fn. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-rv | This option indicates that reverse video should be simulated by swapping the foreground and background colors. (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-background | for “-bg” (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-bordercolor | for “-bc” (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-borderwidth | for “-bw” (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-foreground | for “-fg” (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |
-reverse | for “-rv” (in the manual page but not in --help) | man |