This section defines an alternative color theme. The keys are the same
as in the 'colors' section, as are the default values.
Values are *not* inherited from 'colors'. That is, if you set a value
in 'colors', but not in 'colors2', it is *not* inherited by 'colors2'.
The old one is in some cases too liberal. The new one is stricter in
two ways:
1. The protocol list is now explicit, rather than matching anything://
2. Allowed characters are now limited to the "safe character set", the
"reserved character set", and some from the "unsafe character set"
Furthermore, some of the characters are restricted in how/when they
are allowed:
1. Periods, commas, question marks etc are allowed inside an URL, but
not at the end.
2. [ ], ( ), " " and ' ' are allowed but only when balanced. This
allows us to match e.g. [http://foo.bar/foo[bar]] correctly.
Closes#2016
When auto-matching URLs (or custom regular expressions), use the
first *subexpression* as URL, rather than the while regex match.
This allows us to write custom regular expressions with prefix/suffix
strings that should not be included in the presented match.
Users can now define their own regex patterns, and use them via key
bindings:
[regex:foo]
regex=foo(bar)?
launch=path-to-script-or-application {match}
[key-bindings]
regex-launch=[foo] Control+Shift+q
regex-copy=[foo] Control+Mod1+Shift+q
That is, add a section called 'regex:', followed by an
identifier. Define a regex and a launcher command line.
Add a key-binding, regex-launch and/or regex-copy (similar to
show-urls-launch and show-urls-copy), and connect them to the regex
with the "[regex-name]" syntax (similar to how the pipe-* bindings
work).
From the release notes:
system bell - allowing e.g. terminal emulators to hand off system
bell alerts to the compositor for among other things accessibility
purposes
The new protocol is used when the new config option
bell.system=yes (and the compositor implements the protocol,
obviously).
The system bell is rung independent of whether the foot window has
keyboard focus or not (thus relying on compositor configuration to
determine whether anything should be done or not in response to the
bell).
The new option is enabled by default.
This implements part of the new 's' (sound) parameter; the 'silent'
value. When s=silent, we set the ${muted} template argument to
"true". It is intended to set the 'suppress-sound' hint:
notify-send --hint BOOLEAN:suppress-sound:${muted}
* Don't store a list of unfinished notifications. Use a single one. If
the notification ID of the 'current' notification doesn't match the
previous, unfinished one, the 'current' notification replaces the
previous one, instead of updating it.
* Update xstrjoin() to take an optional delimiter (for example ','),
and use that when joining categories and 'alive IDs'.
* Rename ${action-arg} to ${action-argument}
* Update handling of the 'n' parameter (symbolic icon name); the spec
allows it to be used multiple times, and the terminal is supposed to
pick the first one it can resolve. Foot can't resolve icons at all,
neither can 'notify-send' or 'fyi' (which is what foot typically
executes to display a notification); it's the notification daemon that
resolves icons.
The spec _could_ be interpreted to mean the terminal should lookup
.desktop files, and use the value of the 'Icon' key from the first
matching .desktop files. But foot doesn't read .desktop files, and I
don't intend to implement XDG directory scanning and parsing of
.desktop files just to figure out which icon to use.
Instead, use a simple heuristics; use the *shortest* symbolic
names. The idea is pretty simple: plain icon names are typically
shorter than .desktop file IDs.
First, icons have been finalized in the specification. There were only
three things we needed to adjust:
* symbolic names are base64 encoded
* there are a couple of OSC-99 defined symbolic names that need to be
translated to the corresponding XDG icon name.
* allow in-band icons without a cache ID (that is, allow applications
to use p=icon without having to cache the icon first).
Second, add support for the following new additions to the protocol:
* 'f': custom app-name, overrides the terminal's app-id
* 't': categories
* 'p=alive': lets applications poll for currently active notifications
* 'id' is now 'unset' by default, rather than "0"
* 'w': expire time (i.e. notification timeout)
* "buttons": aka actions. This lets applications add additional (to
the terminal defined "default" action) actions. The 'activated' event
has been updated to report which button/action was used to activate
the notification.
To support button/actions, desktop-notifications.command had to be
reworked a bit.
There's now a new config option:
desktop-notifications.command-action-arg. It has two template
arguments ${action-name} and ${action-label}.
command-action-arg gets expanded for *each* action.
${action-name} and ${action-label} has been replaced by ${action-arg}
in command. This is a somewhat special template, in that it gets
replaced by *all* instances of the expanded actions.
Add a new config option, desktop-notifications.close, defining what to
execute to close a notification. It has a single template parameter,
${id}, that is expanded to the external notification ID foot may have
picked up from the notification helper.
notify-send does not support closing notifications, and it appears
impossible to pass an *unsigned* integer as argument to gdbus. Hence
no default value for the new 'close' option.
Example:
printf '\e]99;i=123;this is a notification\e\\'
printf '\e]99;i=123:p=close;\e\\'
Split it up into two, ${action-name} and ${action-label}.
Dunstify, for example, has a different syntax compared to notify-send:
notify-send: default=foobar
dunstify: default,foobar
Only do it when the notification was activated.
Here, activated means the 'click to activate' notification action was
triggered.
How do we tie everything together?
First, we add a new template parameter, ${action}. It's intended to be
used with e.g. notify-send's --action option.
When the action is triggered, notify-send prints its name on stdout,
on a separate line. Look for this in stdout. Only if we've seen it do
we focus/report the notification.
This patch adds support for window focusing, and sending events back
to the client application when a notification is closed.
* Refactor notification related configuration options:
- add desktop-notifications sub-section
- deprecate 'notify' in favor of 'desktop-notifications.command'
- deprecate 'notify-focus-inhibit' in favor of
'desktop-notifications.inhibit-when-focused'
* Refactor: rename 'struct kitty_notification' to 'struct
notification'
* Pass a 'struct notification' to notify_notify(), instead of many
arguments.
* notify_notify() now registers a reaper callback. When the notifier
process has terminated, the notification is considered closed, and we
either try to focus (activate) the window, or send an event to the
client application, depending on the notification setting.
* For the window activation, we need an XDG activation token. For now,
assume *everything* written on stdout is part of the token.
* Refactor: remove much of the warnings from OSC-99; we don't
typically log anything when an OSC/CSI has invalid values.
* Add icon support to OSC-99. This isn't part of the upstream
spec. Foot's implementation:
- uses the 'I' parameter
- the value is expected to be a symbolic icon name
- a quick check for absolute paths is done, and such icon requests
are ignored.
* Added ${icon} to the 'desktop-notifications.command' template. Uses
the icon specified in the notification, or ${app-id} if not set.
This adds limited support for OSC-99, kitty desktop notifications[^1]. We
support everything defined by the "protocol", except:
* 'a': action to perform on notification activation. Since we don't
trigger the notification ourselves (over D-Bus), we don't know a)
which ID the notification got, or b) when it is clicked.
* ... and that's it. Everything else is supported
To be explicit, we *do* support:
* Chunked notifications (d=0|1), allowing the application to append
data to a notification in chunks, before it's finally displayed.
* Plain UTF-8, or base64-encoded UTF-8 payload (e=0|1).
* Notification identifier (i=xyz).
* Payload type (p=title|body).
* When to honor the notification (o=always|unfocused|invisible), with
the following quirks:
- we don't know when the window is invisible, thus it's treated as
'unfocused'.
- the foot option 'notify-focus-inhibit' overrides 'always'
* Urgency (u=0|1|2)
[^1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/desktop-notifications/
BTN_BACK and BTN_FORWARD are separate buttons. The scroll wheel don't
have any button mappings in libinput/wayland, so make up our own
defines.
This allows us to map them in mouse bindings.
Also expose BTN_WHEEL_{LEFT,RIGHT}. These were already defined, and
used, internally, to handle wheel tilt events. With this, they can
also be used in mouse bindings.
Finally, fix encoding used for BTN_{BACK,FORWARD} when sending mouse
button events to the client application. Before this, they were mapped
to buttons 4/5. But, button 4/5 are for the scroll wheel, and as
mentioned above, BTN_{BACK,FORWARD} are not the same as scroll wheel
"buttons".
Closes#1763
This patch changes the default of triple clicking, from selecting the
current logical row, to first trying to select the contents of the
quote under the cursor, and if failing to find a quote, selecting the
current row (like before).
This is implemented by adding a new key binding, 'select-quote'.
It will search for surrounding quote characters, and if one is found
on each side of the cursor, the quote is selected. If not, the entire
row is selected instead.
Subsequent selection operations will behave as if the selection is
either a word selection (a quote was found), or a row selection (no
quote found).
Escaped quote characters are not supported: "foo \" bar" will match
'foo \', and not 'foo " bar'.
Mismatched quotes are not custom handled. They will simply not match.
Nested quotes ("123 'abc def' 456") are supported.
Closes#1364
Un-grabbed wheel events are now passed through the mouse binding
matching logic, instead of being hardcoded to scrolling the terminal
contents.
They are mappable through the BTN_BACK and BTN_FORWARD buttons.
Since they're not actually button *presses*, they never generate a
click count other than 1. This limitation is documented, but not
checked in the config. This means it's possible to create bindings
like "BTN_BACK+3" (i.e. triple "click"). They will however never
trigger.
The old, hardcoded logic is now accessible through the new
scrollback-up-mouse and scrollback-down-mouse mouse
bindings. They (obiously) default to BTN_BACK and BTN_FORWARD,
respectively.
Example usage: keep the default of scrolling terminal contents with
the wheel, when used without modifiers, but map Control+wheel to font
zoom in/out:
[mouse-bindings]
font-increase=Control+BTN_FORWARD
font-decrease=Control+BTN_BACK
(this also keeps the default key bindings to zoom in/out; ctrl-+ and
ctrl+-)
Closes#1077
When enabled, double-clicking the CSD titlebar will (un)maximize the
window.
Defaults to ‘yes’ (since this is the old hard-coded behavior).
Closes#1293
Having a keybinding to invoke arbitrary unicode characters is very
useful. It's often used as a method of last resort to communicate with
people outside of your main language. For example, if you want to type
the last letter of my real name, you can invoke the latin-1 character
0xe9 or unicode 0x00e9.
You can also use this to type special characters, for example, unicode
U+1F4A9 is of course, the infamous PILE OF POO, which is sure to
produce million laughs everywhere you go.
In foot, there's no keybinding by default to invoke the very useful
unicode-input command. There is no "standard" (as in "ISO") keybinding
this either. But there *is* a de-facto standard currently deployed
by *both* GTK and Qt (a rare feat) *and* Chrome OS (an even rarer
feat) and it's control-shift-u.
Alternatives include Control-x 8 (emacs), Control V u (vim),
Alt (Windows, LibreOffice), or Option (Mac). I doubt we want to adopt
any of those.
So let's use control-shift-u for this. Unfortunately, it's currently
assigned to show-urls-launch, which is unfortunate, but
insurmountable. We can reassign this keybinding elsewhere. I have
picked control-shift-o in my configuration, because "o" is a good
mnemonic for "open URLs". Others have suggested "m" instead.
Closes: #1183
We now default to scaling fonts using the scaling factor, not monitor
DPI.
The ‘auto’ value for dpi-aware has been removed.
Documentation (man pages and README) have been updated to reflect the
new default.
