aterm (old-school terminal emulator with nice visual effects) aterm is designed to provide pleasing visual effects while performing such a mundane function as terminal emulation under X. It is largely based on rxvt code. Note: aterm hasn't been maintained by its developers in decades. This build is provided for completeness' sake (for someone trying to recreate the late 90s AfterStep experience) but you'd be better off using something like Slackware's rxvt-unicode, or even xterm.