FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device or VESA video card. Features include:

• mostly as fast as terminal of linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled
• 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 encodings with hot keys on the fly
• copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running
• change the orientation of screen display, a.k.a. screen rotation
• lightweight input method framework with client-server architecture
• background image for eye candy

read man page doc/fbterm.1.in for usage help.