foot

foot is a Wayland terminal emulator.

Requirements

fontconfig
freetype
cairo
wayland (client and cursor libraries)
wayland protocols
xkbcommon

Fonts

foot supports all fonts that can be loaded by freetype, including bitmap fonts and color emoji fonts.

Foot uses its own font fallback mechanism, rather than relying on fontconfig's fallback. This is because fontconfig is quite bad at selecting fallback fonts suitable for a terminal (i.e. monospaced fonts).

Instead, foot allows you to specify a font fallback list, where each font can be configured independently (for example, you can configure the size for each font individually).

Note that subpixel antialiasing is not supported at the moment (but grayscale antialiasing is).

Shortcuts

At the moment, all shortcuts are hard coded and cannot be changed. It is not possible to define new key bindings.

Keyboard

shift+page up/down - scroll up/down in history
ctrl+shift+c - copy selected text to the clipboard
ctrl+shift+v - paste from clipboard

Mouse

left - single-click: drag to select; when released, the selected text is copied to the primary selection. Note that this feature is normally disabled whenever the client has enabled mouse tracking, but can be forced by holding shift.
left - double-click: selects the word (separated by spaces, period, comma, parenthesis etc) under the pointer. Hold ctrl to select everything under the pointer up to, and until, the next space characters.
left - triple-click: selects the entire row

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