A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

Termite looks for the configuration file in the following order: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/termite/config, ~/.config/termite/config, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/termite/config, /etc/xdg/termite.cfg.

Termite's exit status is 1 on a failure, including a termination of the child process from an uncaught signal. Otherwise the exit status is that of the child process.

DEPENDENCIES

A vte version >= 0.34. A patch is required to expose the functions needed for keyboard selection.

BUILDING

git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git
cd termite && make

KEYBINDINGS

INSERT MODE

ctrl-shift-x	activate url hints mode
ctrl-shift-r	reload configuration file
ctrl-shift-c	copy to CLIPBOARD
ctrl-shift-v	paste from CLIPBOARD
ctrl-shift-u	unicode input (standard GTK binding)
ctrl-tab	start scrollback completion
ctrl-shift-space	start command mode
ctrl-shift-t	open terminal in the current directory1
ctrl-shift-up	scroll up a line
ctrl-shift-down	scroll down a line
shift-pageup	scroll up a page
shift-pagedown	scroll down a page

COMMAND MODE

escape	deactivate command mode
x	activate url hints mode
v	visual mode
V	visual line mode
ctrl-v	visual block mode
hjkl or arrow keys	move cursor left/down/up/right
w or shift-right	forward word
b or shift-left	backward word
W or ctrl-right	forward WORD (non-whitespace)
B or ctrl-left	backward WORD (non-whitespace)
0	move cursor to the first column in the row
^	beginning-of-line (first non-blank character)
$	end-of-line
g	jump to start of first row
G	jump to start of last row
ctrl-u	move cursor half a screen up
ctrl-d	move cursor half a screen down
y	copy to CLIPBOARD
/	forward search
?	reverse search
u	forward url search
U	reverse url search
o	open the current selection as a url
Return	open the current selection as a url and exit command mode
n	next search match
N	previous search match
+	increase font size
-	decrease font size

During scrollback search, the current selection is changed to the search match and copied to the PRIMARY clipboard buffer.

With the text input widget focused, up/down (or tab/shift-tab) cycle through completions, escape closes the widget and enter accepts the input.

In hints mode, the input will be accepted as soon as termite considers it a unique match.

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1. The directory can be set by a process running in the terminal. For example, with zsh:

   if [[ $TERM == xterm-termite ]]; then
     . /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
     __vte_osc7
   fi

   :

   For example, with bash:

   if [[ $TERM == xterm-termite ]]; then
     . /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
     __vte_prompt_command
   fi

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