This is a fork of "aterm", a tiny, lean, mean basic xterm terminal-emulator 
program from the early 2000s.  It's faster and uses much less resources than 
most all modern terminal emulators, doesn't launch or use dbus or any other 
processes!  It was originally pared with the AfterStep window-manager, but they 
later stopped including it and endorsed the bulkier rxvt terminal emulator.  
I use AfterStep myself (and have forked and improved it as well - see the rest 
of my GitHub site's other projects), but I really prefer AfterStep + their 
original Aterm for their simplicity and low resource-usage, and which already 
do everything I need from a wm & terminal!

*** For a screenshot, see here:  
https://wildstar84.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/dtterm-2.png

I've added it to my GitHub in order to release all my changes and improvements 
made since I obtained the source in 2018.

One of the biggest new features I've added is getting it's menubar code 
polished and documented up to where a non-code-reading user can actually be 
able to set up a custom menubar at the top of the terminal window.  I was once 
a Solaris user at work and used their "dtterm" terminal-emulator program.  
dtterm had a cool menubar up at the top for setting verious options in the 
terminal, sending common terminal escape sequences with a couple mouse-clicks, 
and had the nice Copy/Paste options right there in the menu!  I've always 
missed this since moving over to Linux, as xterm, aterm, and most other 
terminals either lack this capability entirely, or else only offer a standard, 
non-customizable menubar (like lxterminal).  I can't speak for the massively 
heavy Gnome-shell or whatever KDE's terminal is these days as I've never 
considered installing those.

I snagged aterm's source when AfterStep switched to rxvt, and decided to add a 
few standard key sequences for such things a pasting PRIMARY vs CLIPBOARD, etc. 
and discovered that it had an entire source file dedicated to menubars!  
I had never seen an aterm with a menubar but searched diligently for how to 
make them work and discovered that it was designed to accept custom menu files, 
but almost no documentation on how to get one actually displayed and working.  
Turns out that it required setting a non-documented compiler directive and 
recompiling to use that code!  I also couldn't find an action escape sequence 
string that I could have a menu item send to do Copy or Paste, so I started 
working on it (and added a bunch more settings to my new menu and made it look 
alot like the old "dtterm" that I fondly remembered)!  I would have first filed 
a change request with aterm, but the project lead (who also was lead developer 
on AfterStep) has not released anything on either in many years, so if I really 
wanted these changes I'd have to get to work on them myself, so here we are!  
Anyway, if you're interested in a lean, small, fast standalone terminal 
for Linux without dbus, systemd, or any other under-the-hood behind-your-back 
interprocess communication or data-collection of most modern software; and/or 
miss the classic old "dtterm" and it's handy, toggleable menubar; or want to be 
able to set up a completely transparent terminal (that stays transparent as you 
move or resize it, please feel free to download, build, and install this new 
fork of the original aterm!  

See the README.configure and INSTALL files for how to build and install on your 
modern Linux/Unix system.  Also Check out the FAQ and ChangeLog file for more 
details on the improvements to the original aterm v1.00.02 that I've 
changed and fixed.

Enjoy aterm (unofficial) version 2.0!

One thing you could do if you want separate terminal options, one with a 
menubar and one without (or with a different menubar) is to (for example), set 
up a symlink to aterm, say dtterm, then in your ~/.Xdefaults file, add options 
like:

dtterm.menuBar: true
dtterm.menu:    dtterm_menus

Then:  execute "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults", and set up your app launcher with options 
to launch each as a separate app.  When aterm is launched it will have no 
menubar, but when dtterm is launched, it will read the menu file 
"dtterm_menus" (See the doc/README.menus on where to put your menu file), and 
an example, well-annotated menu-config file (doc/menu/mymenu.menu) that fairly 
closely emulates the old dtterm menubar to start with.

Note:  I've included copies of all the original source files I have changed 
under (before changing them) the ".org" extension, ie:  main.c => main.c.org 
for anyone who just wants the original aterm source from years ago.  To build 
a genuine stock aterm v1.00.02, simply copy each .org file over it's 
counterpart and follow the same build instructions.