About

Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies.

Work in progress, expect bugs and missing features!

Features

• Unicode support
• Text reflow
• 24-bit colors
• All text properties (squiggly underline, blinking, overline etc.)
• Resizable font
• Subpixel font rendering
• Mouse reporting
• Scrollback
• Mouse text selection
• Clipboard
• Configurable keybindings

To-Do

• All xterm and vte control sequences
• Ligatures
• Graphics

Building

make
make install

Dependencies:

• OpenGL >= 2.1
• freetype >= 2.10
• fontconfig
• xkbcommon [wayland]

To build without X11 or Wayland support set window_protocol=wayland or window_protocol=x11 respectively. With both backends enabled wayst will default to wayland. You can force X11 mode with the xorg-only option.

To build in debug mode set mode=debugoptimized.

Installation from AUR

You can install wayst-git from AUR (arch user repository)

yay -S wayst-git

Usage

Configuration:

All option can be set in a configuration file or passed as command line arguments. To see all supported options run wayst --help.
Wayst will look for: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wayst/config or $HOME/.config/wayst/config.

Example:

# '#' starts a line comment
# Strings with spaces need double quotes (use \" for " and \\ for \).

font="source code pro"
style-regular="Regular"
style-bold="Semibold"
font-fallback="noto sans mono nerd font"
font-fallback2="noto color emoji"
font-size=10
dpi=96

colorscheme="wayst"
fg-color="#c7eeff"
bg-color="#000000ee"

term="xterm-256color"
no-flash=true

title="Terminal"
title-format="%2$s - %1$s" #  <set by program> - Terminal
#title-format="%s [%s]"    #  Terminal [<set by program>]
#title-format="%2$s"       #  <set by program>


# xorg keysym names are case sensitive!
bind-key-debug=Ctrl+Shift+Return
bind-key-enlarge=Ctrl+Shift+equal
bind-key-shrink=Ctrl+Shift+minus
bind-key-copy=Ctrl+Shift+y
bind-key-paste=Ctrl+Shift+p

Default Keybindings:

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Shift+c	Copy to clipboard
Ctrl+Shift+v	Paste from clipboard
Ctrl+Shift+=	Increase font size
Ctrl+Shift+-	Decrease font size
Ctrl+Shift+u	Unicode entry
Ctrl+Shift+k	Enter vi-like keyboard select mode
Ctrl+Shift+d	Output debug information to stdout
LMB	Select text
RMB	Change selected region
Shift+LMB	Select text in mouse reporting mode
Ctrl + LMB	Box select

License

MIT