Foot

Foot is Article description::a minimalist terminal emulator for Wayland written in C.

Configuration
Foot's user configuration is found at. The file and directory won't be created by default. A template can be found in or from the upstream repository.

To create the directory for the foot config and copy the example:

Font/text configuration
Foot has several font configuration options, the  parameter can be used to set the terminal font. ,, and   will automatically try to use variants of the primary font, but can be overridden. ,,  ,  ,  , and   options are also available.

Server mode configuration
Foot supports the operation of a daemon which can be used to reduce overhead. The server handles all wayland communication, VT parsing, and rendering. Additionally, fonts are cached in a single thread, reducing overall memory usage.

Foot can be started as a server by running, this can be added to a window manager startup script to enable it upon login:

Once the server has been started, clients can be started with

Scrollback configuration
The number of lines saved in the scrollback can be adjusted with:

Color configuration
Colors can be specified with the,  ,  , and   parameters

The order is

Minimal Configuration
This minimal configuration sets the font to Source Code Pro with a size of 10. The window will open with 60, 190 character long, lines. All configuration options can be found on foot's source repository.

Terminal break after SSHing
If a SSH connection is made to a destination that does not have the terminfo files. This can be corrected in more than one way.

Configure SSH to set TERM
can be adjusted to automatically set TERM to xterm-256color in the destination environment once a connection is made:

This can also be done manually by running once logged in, or starting the SSH session like

Install terminfo files on destination
This is very distro-dependent, but this info should be part of the :