About

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

Warning: This project is work in progress, expect bugs and missing features!

Features

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

To-Do

• Font reloading
• Sixel graphics
• Configurable keys

Building

make
make install

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.

Dependencies:

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

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
# Use double quotes for strings with spaces, \" for ", \# for # and \\ for  \.

font="mononoki"
font-size=10
dpi=96
colorscheme=wayst
title="Terminal"
term="xterm256-color"
dynamic-title=true
title-format = "%2$s - %1$s"       # -> user@host:~ - $title

Keybindings:

Currently keybindings can't be reconfigured.

Keys	Action
ctrl+shift+c / ctrl+shift+y	Copy to clipboard
ctrl+shift+p	Paste clipboard
LMB	Select text
shift+LMB	Select text in mouse reporting mode
ctrl + LMB	Box select
ctrl+shift+enter	Output debug information to stdout

License

MIT