foot
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Foot is a minimalist terminal emulator for Wayland written in C.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for gui-apps/foot Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
grapheme-clustering
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Enable grapheme clustering support |
Emerge
Foot is currently in testing and needs to be unmasked before it can be emerged:
FILE
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
Unmask foot for x86_64gui-apps/foot
Now emerge foot:
root #
emerge --ask gui-apps/foot
Configuration
Foot's configuration can be edited in ~/.config/foot/foot.ini. The file and directory won't be created by default. A template can be found in /etc/xdg/foot/foot.ini or here [1].
FILE
~/.config/foot/foot.ini
Foot minimal configurationfont=Source Code Pro:size=10 initial-window-size-chars=190x60
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.[1]
Removal
Unmerge
First, unmerge foot:
root #
emerge --ask --depclean --verbose gui-apps/foot
Then, mask it. This line has to to be removed from /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords:
FILE
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
foot unmaskedgui-apps/foot
See also
- Wayland Desktop Landscape — various desktop related packages for Wayland
- Terminal emulator — emulates a video terminal within another display architecture (e.g. in X).
- Wayland — a simpler and modern replacement for X display server.