This is a basic personal terminal emulator using the VTE library.
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Buttermilk features only a few simple keybindings, which are optimized for the default English keyboard layout:
Ctrl+Shift+plus- make the font biggerCtrl+minus- make the font smallerCtrl+equals- reset the font sizeCtrl+return- launch new instance (also take a look at Terminal cloning)
If you are on Arch, Manjaro or another distro that supports the AUR you can install this
software directly from there.
It is available as buttermilk.
If you are using yay:
yay -S buttermilkotherwise:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/buttermilk.git
cd buttermilk
makepkg -siInstallation should be fairly simple on other distros as well.
First make sure you have the dependencies (namely vte and libinih) installed.
Then clone the repository and run the following make command inside project folder:
git clone https://github.com/jzbor/buttermilk
cd buttermilk
sudo make install cleanTo print out your current configuration use buttermilk -c.
The global config file should be in /etc/buttermilk.conf, the user config file in ~/.config/buttermilk/buttermilk.conf.
You can initially create a config file for your user, by first creating the according directory and then writing the default configuration into the config file:
mkdir ~/.config/buttermilk
buttermilk -c > ~/.config/buttermilk/buttermilk.confYou can clone the terminal with Ctrl+Enter, but in order to keep the current working directory vte.sh has to be loaded.
On Arch Linux it is located at /etc/profile.d/vte.sh.
If it is not loaded automatically you can try adding this line to your .bashrc/.zshrc:
[ -f "/etc/profile.d/vte.sh" ] && . /etc/profile.d/vte.shThis program is based on a tutorial by Vincent Bernat: "Writing your own terminal emulator". I also took borrowed some code from his own implementation of a VTE terminal emulator, called vbeterm.