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/config``.
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
============
The `vte-ng <https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng>`_ project is required until
VTE exposes the necessary functions for keyboard text selection and URL hints
(if ever). A simple patch `has been submitted upstream
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658#c10>`_ but they're unwilling
to expose functionality that's not required by GNOME Terminal even if there's
no extra maintenance (it already exists internally) and no additional backwards
compatibility hazards.
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 selection mode |
+----------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``ctrl-shift-t`` | open terminal in the current directory [1]_ |
+----------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``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 |
+----------------------+---------------------------------------------+
.. [1] The directory can be set by a process running in the terminal. For
example, with zsh:
.. code:: sh
if [[ $TERM == xterm-termite ]]; then
. /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
__vte_osc7
fi
::
For example, with bash:
.. code:: sh
if [[ $TERM == xterm-termite ]]; then
. /etc/profile.d/vte.sh
__vte_prompt_command
fi
SELECTION MODE
--------------
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``q`` or ``escape`` or ``ctrl-[`` | enter insert mode |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``x`` | activate url hints mode |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``v`` | visual mode |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``V`` | visual line mode |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``ctrl-v`` | visual block mode |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``hjkl`` or arrow keys | move cursor left/down/up/right |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``w`` or ``shift-right`` | forward word |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``b`` or ``shift-left`` | backward word |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``W`` or ``ctrl-right`` | forward WORD (non-whitespace) |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``B`` or ``ctrl-left`` | backward WORD (non-whitespace) |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``0`` | move cursor to the first column in the row |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``^`` | beginning-of-line (first non-blank character) |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``$`` | end-of-line |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``g`` | jump to start of first row |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``G`` | jump to start of last row |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``ctrl-u`` | move cursor a half screen up |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``ctrl-d`` | move cursor a half screen down |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``ctrl-b`` | move cursor a full screen up (back) |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``ctrl-f`` | move cursor a full screen down (forward) |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``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 enter insert 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.
PADDING
=======
Internal padding can be added by using CSS to style the VTE widget. Adding the
follow snippet to ``$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/gtk.css`` (or
``~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css``) will add uniform 2px padding around the edges:
.. code:: css
VteTerminal {
padding: 2px;
}
This can also be used to add varying amounts of padding to each side via
standard usage of the CSS padding property.
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