How To Install Fbterm?

How To Install Fbterm?

fbterm

A fast framebuffer based terminal emulator for Linux

Maintainer: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu



Section: utils

Install fbterm

  • Debian apt-get install fbterm Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install fbterm Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install fbterm Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install fbterm Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install fbterm Click to copy

fbterm

A fast framebuffer based terminal emulator for Linux

FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame buffer device. Features include: * mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on framebuffer device * select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps * dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell * record scrollback history for every window * auto-detect current locale and convert text encoding, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc * switch between configurable additional text encoding with hot keys on the fly * copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running

Installation of latest fbterm command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Fedora and Raspbian. You can copy the command for your OS from above and paste it into your terminal. Once you run the command it will download the 2026 latest package from the repository and install it in your computer/server.