myterm is a simple utility used to start a user's preferred terminal emulator.
The following software is required to build and install myterm:
- C compiler (such as GCC)
- make
Install myterm by running:
$ make
$ sudo make install
The name of the terminal binary is read from the TERMINAL environment
variable. If TERMINAL is not found in the process environment, myterm will
try to read the preferred terminal from a file at ~/.config/terminal.
All arguments to myterm are passed directly to the terminal emulator. If needed,
TERMINAL_STRIP can be used to remove a single argument before executing
the terminal. For example, TERMINAL_STRIP="-e" will cause myterm to
remove -e if it is first in the argument list.
Additional arguments can be passed to the terminal from TERMINAL_ARGS. For
example, TERMINAL=xterm TERMINAL_ARGS="foo bar" myterm baz will call xterm
with the following argument list: foo bar baz.
TERMINAL may also be configured to point to myterm itself. In this case,
myterm will look for the terminal name in TERMINAL_CMD followed by the
configuration file.
See myterm(1) for full usage details.
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