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foot
foot is a fast Wayland terminal emulator.
Index
Features
- Fast (TODO insert benchmark results here)
- Wayland native
- DE agnostic
- User configurable font fallback
- Scrollback search
- Color emoji support
Non-features
This is a non-exhaustive list of things some people might consider being important features (i.e. "must-haves"), that are unlikely to ever be supported by foot.
- Tabs
- Multiple windows
Requirements
Running
- fontconfig
- freetype
- pixman
- wayland (client and cursor libraries)
- xkbcommon
Building
In addition to the dev variant of the packages above, you need:
- meson
- ninja
- wayland protocols
- ncurses
- scdoc
Fonts
foot supports all fonts that can be loaded by freetype, including bitmap fonts and color emoji fonts.
Foot uses fontconfig to locate and configure the font(s) to use. Since fontconfig's fallback mechanism is imperfect, especially for monospace fonts (it doesn't prefer monospace fonts even though the requested font is one), foot allows you, the user, to configure the fallback fonts to use.
This also means you can configure each fallback font individually; you want that fallback font to use this size, and you want that other fallback font to be italic? No problem!
If a glyph cannot be found in any of the user configured fallback fonts, then fontconfig's list is used.
Shortcuts
At the moment, all shortcuts are hard coded and cannot be changed. It is not possible to define new key bindings.
Keyboard
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shift+page up/page down
Scroll up/down in history
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ctrl+shift+c
Copy selected text to the clipboard
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ctrl+shift+v
Paste from clipboard
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ctrl+shift+r
Start a scrollback search
While doing a scrollback search, the following shortcuts are available:
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ctrl+r
Search for next match
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escape
Cancel the search
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ctrl+g
Cancel the search (same as escape)
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return
Finish the search and put the current match to the primary selection
Mouse
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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.
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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.
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left - triple-click
Selects the entire row
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middle
Paste from primary selection