When launching footclient with -E,--client-environment the environment
variables that should be set by foot, wasn't.
Those variables are:
* TERM
* COLORTERM
* PWD
* SHELL
and all variables defined by the user in the [environment] section in
foot.ini.
In the same way, we did not *unset* TERM_PROGRAM and
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION.
This patch fixes it by "cloning" the custom environment, making it
mutable, and then adding/removing the variables above from it.
Instead of calling setenv()/unsetenv() directly, we add the wrapper
functions add_to_env() and del_from_env().
When *not* using a custom environment, they simply call
setenv()/unsetenv().
When we *are* using a custom environment, add_to_env() first loops all
existing variables, looking for a match. If a match is found, it's
updated with the new value. If it's not found, a new entry is added.
del_from_env() loops all entries, and removes it when a match is
found. If no match is found, nothing is done.
The mutable environment is allocated on the heap, but never free:d. We
don't need to free it, since it's only allocated after forking, in the
child process.
Closes#1568
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
For this to work, the default app-id of footclient has been changed
from ‘foot’ to ‘footclient’.
By using distinct StartupWMClasses, the compositor can connect a
running foot/footclient instance to the correct .desktop-file. This
ensures the correct icon is being used in e.g. docks, and that actions
like “open another window” works correctly.
Note that the user can override the app-id, either by setting app-id
in foot.ini, or with the -a,--app-id command line option.
Closes#1355
Foot’s policy is to not set environment variables that identifies
it (except the well-known and established `TERM` variable).
We encourage applications to use terminfo to determine capabilities,
or terminal queries, when available. Or, at least use terminal queries
to detect the terminal and its version.
Setting environment variables is a bad idea since they are inherited
by all applications started by the terminal (which is the whole
point). But, this includes other terminal emulators, making it very
possible a terminal emulator gets mis-detected just because it was
started from another terminal.
Since there are a couple of terminal emulators that _do_ set
TERM_PROGRAM and TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION, unset these environment
variables to avoid being misdetected.
Closes#1349
The default foot output looks like this, in Debian testing "bookworm"
at the time of writing:
anarcat@angela:pubpaste$ foot true
info: main.c:421: version: 1.13.1 +pgo +ime +graphemes -assertions
info: main.c:428: arch: Linux x86_64/64-bit
info: main.c:440: locale: fr_CA.UTF-8
info: config.c:3003: loading configuration from /home/anarcat/.config/foot/foot.ini
info: fcft.c:338: fcft: 3.1.5 +graphemes -runs +svg(nanosvg) -assertions
info: fcft.c:377: fontconfig: 2.13.1, freetype: 2.12.1, harfbuzz: 5.2.0
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf: size=8.00pt/8px, dpi=75.00
info: wayland.c:1353: eDP-1: 2256x1504+0x0@60Hz 0x095F 13.32" scale=2 PPI=205x214 (physical) PPI=136x143 (logical), DPI=271.31
info: wayland.c:1509: requesting SSD decorations
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Bold.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Bold.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: terminal.c:700: cell width=19, height=39
info: terminal.c:588: using 16 rendering threads
info: wayland.c:859: using SSD decorations
info: main.c:680: goodbye
anarcat@angela:pubpaste$
That's 17 lines of output that are *mostly* useless for most use
cases. I might understand having this output during the project's
startup, when it's helpful for diagnostics, but now Foot just mostly
works everywhere, and I've never had a use for any of that stuff in
the (arguably short) time I've been using Foot so far.
And if I do, there's the `--log-level` commandline option to tweak
this. At first, I looked at tweaking the log level through the config
file. But as explained in this issue:
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1142
... there's a chicken and egg problem there that makes it hard to
implement and possibly confusing for users as well.
There's also the possibility for users to change the shortcut with
which they start foot, for example a `.desktop` file so that menu
systems that support those start foot properly. But that only works in
that environment, and not through the so many things that will just
call `foot` and hope it will do the right thing.
In my case, I have `foot` hardcoded in a lot of places now, between
sway and waybar, and this is only going to grow. Others have suggested
adding the flag to a $TERMINAL global variable, but that won't help
.desktop users.
So, instead of playing whack-a-mole with the log levels, just make it
so that, by default, foot is silent. This is actually one of the
[basics of UNIX philosophy][1]:
> Rule of Silence: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it
> should say nothing.
And yes, I am aware I am severely violating that principle by writing
a way too long commit log for a one-line patch, but there you go, I
figured it was good to document the why of this properly.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20031102053334/http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html
This patch adds support for the OSC-133;A sequence, introduced by
FinalTerm and implemented by iTerm2, Kitty and more. See
https://iterm2.com/documentation-one-page.html#documentation-escape-codes.html.
The shell emits the OSC just before printing the prompt. This lets the
terminal know where, in the scrollback, there are prompts.
We implement this using a simple boolean in the row struct ("this row
has a prompt"). The prompt marker must be reflowed along with the text
on window resizes.
In an ideal world, erasing, or overwriting the cell where the OSC was
emitted, would remove the prompt mark. Since we don't store this
information in the cell struct, we can't do that. The best we can do
is reset it in erase_line(). This works well enough in the "normal"
screen, when used with a "normal" shell. It doesn't really work in
fullscreen apps, on the alt screen. But that doesn't matter since we
don't support jumping between prompts on the alt screen anyway.
To be able to jump between prompts, two new key bindings have been
added: prompt-prev and prompt-next, bound to ctrl+shift+z and
ctrl+shift+x respectively.
prompt-prev will jump to the previous, not currently visible, prompt,
by moving the viewport, ensuring the prompt is at the top of the
screen.
prompt-next jumps to the next prompt, visible or not. Again, by moving
the viewport to ensure the prompt is at the top of the screen. If
we're at the bottom of the scrollback, the viewport is instead moved
as far down as possible.
Closes#30
We now bind ctrl+v, ctrl+shift+v, ctrl+y and XF86Paste to pasting from
the clipboard into the scrollback search buffer.
Why all these? Because we can, and because all are common shortcuts
for pasting:
* ctrl+v: “normal” apps use this by default
* ctrl+shift+v: used in terminals (including foot)
* ctrl+y: Emacs
* XF86Paste: special keyboard key, for pasting
- foot.ini.5: mention location of example config file
- foot.1: replace outdated (or incomplete) information about the
location of the config file with references to foot.ini.5
- foot.1 and foot.ini.5: conform to scdoc specification, thus surround each
header with (at least) one blank line. additionally consistently use exactly
one line before/after each header (was sometimes two before)
- foot.1: some parts of the keybindings had their own section, move into
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS section
- foot.1: move EXIT STATUS section to the end where it is commonly found
- foot.1: copy information about config file handling from the beginning of
foot.ini.5 into the CONFIGURATION section of foot.1
- INSTALL.md: foot.ini is no longer included in the documentation
- meson.build: do not bundle foot.ini with documentation anymore, see also
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/1015Closes#1002
The meson command line option -Dcustom-terminfo-install-location has
been changed in the following ways:
* If unset, $datadir/terminfo is used, and TERMINFO is *not* exported
* If set, that value (relative to $prefix) is used, and TERMINFO *is*
exported.
* The special value ‘no’ is removed.
-Ddefault-terminfo now also changes the terminfo names generated when
-Dterminfo=enabled.
Furthermore, the documentation for the TERMINFO environment variable
has been removed from the foot.1 and footclient.1 man pages (but as
mentioned above, foot *will* still set it if
-Dcustom-terminfo-install-location has been used).
INSTALL.md has been updated to now recommend using ncurses’ terminfo
definitions, if available. But also to document the other
alternatives; installing the terminfo definitions in a custom
location, or installing them with a diferent name. It also describes
the general problem, and the disadvantages of each alternative (but
without going into too much depth).
As of 2021-07-31, ncurses ships its own version of foot’s terminfo.
Since:
* It doesn’t have the non-standard Sync,Tc,setrgbf,setrgbb
capabilities.
* It doesn’t set hs,fsl,dsl (statusbar).
* We want to be able to update our termminfo without waiting for an
ncurses release.
* Foot should be installable and usable on Linux systems that doesn’t
have the latest ncurses.
we still want to ship our own version. We can however not install it
to the default terminfo location (e.g. /usr/share/terminfo), since it
will collide with the ncurses provided files.
Our options are to either rename our terminfo to something else, or to
keep the name, but install our terminfo files somewhere else.
The first option would be the easy one. However, I think it makes
sense to use the same name. For example, a user that SSH’s into a
remote system that does *not* have our own version installed,
but *does* have the ncurses one, will gracefully fall back to that
one, which is better than manually having to set
e.g. TERM=xterm-256color.
Now, if we want to use the same name, we need to install it somewhere
else. But where? And how do we ensure our version is preferred over
the ncurses one?
I opted to $datadir/foot/terminfo (e.g. /usr/share/foot/terminfo) by
default. It makes it namespaced to foot (i.e. we’re not introducing a
new “standard” terminfo location), thus guaranteeing it wont collide
with ncurses.
To enable applications to find it, we export TERMINFO_DIRS. This is a
list of *additional* directories to search for terminfo files. If it’s
already defined, we *append* to it.
The nice thing with this is, if there’s no terminfo in that
location (e.g. when you SSH into a remote), the default terminfo
location is *also* searched. But only *after* having searched through
TERMINFO_DIRS.
In short: our version is preferred, but the ncurses one (or an older
version of our terminfo package!) will be used if ours cannot be
found.
To enable packagers full control over the new behavior, the existing
meson command line options have been modified, and a new option added:
-Dterminfo=disabled|enabled|auto: *build* and *install* the terminfo
files.
-Dcustom-terminfo-install-location=<path>: *where* the terminfo files
are expected to be found.
This *needs* to be set *even* if -Dterminfo=disabled. For example, if
the packaging script builds and packages the terminfo files separate
from the regular foot build. The path is *relative to $prefix*, and
defaults to $datadir/foot/terminfo.
This is the value that will be appended to TERMINFO_DIRS. Note that
you can set it to ‘no’, in which case foot will *not* set/modify
TERMINFO_DIRS. Only do this if you don’t intend to package foot’s
terminfo files at all (i.e. you plan on using the ncurses ones only).
-Ddefault-terminfo=foot. Allows overriding the default TERM
value. This should only be changed if the target platform doesn’t
support terminfo files.
Closes#671
This means that logging will be completely disabled until log_init()
has been called, which is useful to prevent log spam when running
UNITTEST{} blocks in debug builds.
Note that this doesn't change the default log level at runtime, which
was already being set to LOG_CLASS_INFO in main.c and client.c.
The new log level is also exposed to the command-line interface as
`--log-level=none`, which allows disabling logging entirely.
Allow any configuration option to be overridden with -o/--override
'section.key=value' arguments, as suggested in #554
update completitions for override
slight refactoring to ease footclient support
