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
This implements private mode 2027 - grapheme cluster processing, as
defined in the "Terminal Unicode Core"[1] specification.
Internally, we just flip the already existing option "grapheme
shaping". Since it's now runtime changeable, we need a copy of it in
the terminal struct, rather than referencing the conf object.
[1]: 13fc5a8993/spec/terminal-unicode-core.tex (L50-L53)
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
By how much to increase the luminance when brightening bold
fonts. This was previously hard-coded to a factor of 1.3, which is now
the default value of the new config option.
Closes#1434
Even if WAYLAND_DISPLAY / XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are defined, if we can't
find the corresponding socket, we fallback to the path used when they
are not defined.
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.
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
This patch generalizes the utmp support, to not only support
libutempter, but also ulog (and in the future, even more interfaces).
* Rename config option main.utempter to main.utmp-helper
* Add meson option -Dutmp-backend=none|libutempter|ulog|auto
* Rename meson option -Ddefault-utempter-path to -Dutmp-default-helper-path
* utmp is no longer detected at compile time, but at runtime instead.
Meson will configure the following pre-processor macros, based on the
selected utmp backend:
* UTMP_ADD - argument to pass to utmp helper when adding a record (starting foot)
* UTMP_DEL - argument to pass to utmp helper when removing a record (exiting foot)
* UTMP_DEL_HAVE_ARGUMENT - if defined, UTMP_DEL expects an extra argument ($WAYLAND_DISPLAY)
* UTMP_DEFAULT_HELPER_PATH - path to the default utmp helper binary
The documentation has been updated to mention which arguments are
passed to the helper binary.
Closes#1314
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 old default, wcswidth, simply calls wcswidth() on the grapheme
cluster. This was supposedly the implementation with the highest
application compatibility. Except we never even tried to measure
it. It was just assumed.
A lot of modern applications have better implementations. Let’s try to
push support for better emoji support by changing our default method
from wcswith to double-width.
While far from correct (it’s not based on the Unicode tables), the
‘double-width’ method produces accurate results anyway.
double-width is like wcswidth(), in that it adds together the
individual wcwidths of all codepoints in the grapheme cluster. But, it
limits the maximum width to 2.
This patch adds a new config option, font-size-adjustment.
It lets you configure how much the font size should be
incremented/decremented when zooming in or out (ctrl-+, ctrl+-).
Values can be specified in points, pixels or percent.
Closes#1188
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
Reflowing a large scrollback is *slow*. During an interactive resize,
it can easily take long enough that the compositor fills the Wayland
socket with configure events. Eventually, the socket becomes full and
the compositor terminates the connection, causing foot to exit.
This patch is work-in-progress, and the first step towards alleviating
this.
It delays the reflow by:
* Snapshotting (copying) the original grid when an interactive resize
is started.
* While resizing, we apply a simple truncation resize of the
grid (like we handle the alt screen).
* When the resize is done, or paused for ‘resize-delay-ms’, the grid
is reflowed.
TODO: we *must* not allow any changes to the temporary (truncated)
grid during the resize. Any changes to the grid would be lost when the
final reflow is applied. That is, we must completely pause the ptmx
pipe while a resize is in progress.
Future improvements:
The initial copy can be slow. We should be able to avoid it by
rewriting the reflow algorithm to not free anything. This is
complicated by the fact that some resources (e.g. sixel images) are
currently *moved* to the new grid. They’d instead have to be copied.
This patch adds support for creating utmp records using the ‘utempter’
helper binary from the ‘libutempter’ package.
* New config option ‘main.utempter’
* New meson command line option, -Ddefault-utempter-path. Defaults to
auto-detecting the path.
The default value of the new ‘main.utempter’ config option depends on
the meson command line option ‘-Ddefault-utempter-path’.
If ‘main.utempter’ is *not* set to ‘none’, foot will try to execute
the utempter helper binary to create utmp records when a new terminal
is instantiated. The record is removed when the terminal instance is
destroyed.
This is my variant of the solarized theme, were only the first eight
colors (i.e. the "normal") colors are from the solarized theme. The
remaining eight (the "bright" colors) are brightened versions of the
"normal" colors. This results in a theme that is usually in all
applications, not just those that are "aware" that the terminal color
theme is "solarized".
