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 dynamically create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell record scroll-back history for every window auto-detect text encoding with current locale, 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