VTE is a GTK widget that allows creating a virtual terminal emulator which is used in many emulators such as GNOME Terminal, ROXTerm and evilvte. Although there's a lot of (VTE-based and other) terminal emulator options for GNU/Linux users, k3rmit tries to differ from them with its simplicity.
The project inspired by Vincent Bernat's article and also his implementation of a custom VTE-based terminal. Also, Rxvt and termite's appearance are taken as an example.
k3rmit terminal depends on vte3 and gtk3 packages.
• AUR (k3rmit-git)
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
make
sudo make install
cd src/
gcc -s -O3 -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations $(pkg-config --cflags vte-2.91) k3rmit.c -o\
k3rmit.o $(pkg-config --libs vte-2.91)
- Use default shell (with
$SHELLenvironment variable) - Supports transparency with a composite manager (such as compton)
- Tab support
- Customizable
k3rmit [-h] [-v] [-d] [-c config] [-e command]
-h, show help message and exit
-v, show version
-d, enable debug messages
-c, configuration file to read
-e, command to execute in terminal
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
ctrl-alt-[c] |
copy to clipboard |
ctrl-alt-[v] |
paste from clipboard |
ctrl-alt-[t] |
open a new tab |
ctrl-alt-[r] |
reload configuration file |
ctrl-alt-[q] |
exit the terminal |
ctrl-[up] |
increase font size |
ctrl-[down] |
decrease font size |
ctrl-[=] |
reset font size to default |
ctrl-[return] |
open a new tab |
ctrl-[num] |
switch to the tab number [num] |
ctrl-[right][pgup] |
switch to the next tab |
ctrl-[left][pgdn] |
switch to the previous tab |
ctrl-[w][backspace] |
close the selected tab |
• Key bindings (ctrl-alt) can be set to standard ctrl-shift with the config file.
• Default key bindings (ctrl-alt) can conflict with your desktop environments window shortcuts. (especially on Linux Mint) In order to solve this issue, key bindings can be changed to ctrl-shift.
k3rmit looks for configuration file in ~/.config/k3rmit.conf
The default configuration file is available here.
Most of the settings can be changed via the config file including font, opacity and colors.
k3rmit uses a PangoFontDescription which retrieved from the k3rmit.conf for changing the font family, style and size. The configuration entry format of the font and some examples are shown below and the default value is monospace 9.
font [FAMILY-LIST] [STYLE-OPTIONS] [SIZE]
FAMILY-LIST is a comma separated list of families optionally terminated by a comma, STYLE_OPTIONS is a whitespace separated list of words where each WORD describes one of style, variant, weight, or stretch, and SIZE is an decimal number (size in points).
• Available font families: Normal, Sans, Serif and Monospace.
• Available styles: Normal, Oblique, Italic.
• Available weights: Ultra-Light, Light, Normal, Bold,Ultra-Bold, Heavy.
• Available variants: Normal, Small-Caps.
• Available stretch styles: Ultra-Condensed, Extra-Condensed, Condensed, Semi-Condensed, Normal, Semi-Expanded, Expanded, Extra-Expanded, Ultra-Expanded.
Examples:
font sans bold 12
font normal 10
font monospace bold italic condensed 12
Custom keys and associated commands can be specified with the configuration file. An example entry is available here and entry format is shown below.
bind/bindx [KEY]~"[COMMAND]"
• bind: Send command to the terminal.
• bindx: Send command to the terminal and execute.
• Key bindings must be uppercase if the action key is ctrl-shift.
• Commands that contain "~" might have cause error when parsing the configuration file.
Examples:
bindx l~"ls -l"
bindx f~"df -h"
bind r~"rm -i "
bind p~"ps aux | grep "
bind k~"kill -9 "
In order to change the padding of the terminal, create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css if does not exist and specify the values there and restart the terminal.
VteTerminal,
TerminalScreen,
vte-terminal {
padding: 3px 2px 2px 1px;
}
The command below can be used to create both configuration files.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KeyLo99/k3rmit/master/.config/k3rmit.conf --output ~/.config/k3rmit.conf && \
printf "VteTerminal,\nTerminalScreen,\nvte-terminal {\n\tpadding: 3px 2px 2px 1px;\n}\n" > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
v1.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkr0RhUXf50
• URL handling
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