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Sortix nightly manual

This manual documents Sortix nightly, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

terminal — graphical terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS

terminal [command ...]

DESCRIPTION

terminal is a graphical terminal emulator for the display(1) desktop environment. terminal has essentially the same features as the kernel(7) console.
The command is executed inside a pts(4) psuedoterminal. A login shell can be requested with a leading hyphen ‘-’. If no command was specified, the user's shell per passwd(5) is run as a login shell with sh(1) as a fallback.

ENVIRONMENT

TERM=sortix
The terminal type.

EXIT STATUS

terminal will exit 0 on success and non-zero otherwise.

SEE ALSO

display(1), sh(1), pts(4), tty(4)
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