#10ThingsILoveRightNow

A) xaos (old fave linux prog., look it up)
9) #SwayWm (or #i3wm if wayland's not your thing yet)
8) #footTerminal
7) NeoVim (any *vi* is good, though)
6) #KDE #Plasma
5) FOSS OSes in general
4) #RollingRelease Linux distros
3) #DeGoogled #Android (#CalyxOS is my preferred flavor, but many of them are excellent)
2) @tut
1) ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων

> But Coffee, what on earth are #Sixel graphics?

👉 Did you know?

You can display actual #bitmap #images on the actual #console in selected #terminal emulators.

Terminals which support this include #MLTerm, #FootTerminal and #XTerm (after configuration). Support in #GnomeTerminal and other #VTE-based terminals is underway.

More info:
* https://codeberg.org/coffee/sixel-experiments
* https://open.source.coffee/sixel-graphics.html
* other posts in this thread

👇

@codeberg *real* window "urgency" in #FootTerminal, now that native support for it finally is coming to Wayland.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

Any #FootTerminal users out there running it under KDE/Plasma?

Looking for testers of a performance improving PR: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/488

The task would be to verify that a) it actually works (i.e. no rendering glitches, at least no more than usual 😂 ), and b) it improves performance.

Just merged: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/483

Improved 'bell' configuration in #FootTerminal. Most importantly, the ability to execute a custom command, regardless of whether the window is focused or not.

And once https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/487 has been implemented, things will look really good :)

It's that time again... for another #FootTerminal release!

1.7.2 is out 🎉

* pywal no longer turns foot windows transparent
* change selection fg/bg at runtime (used by e.g. pywal)
* fixed regression in the escapes sent for certain key combinations
* new value, 'palette-based', for the bold-text-in-bright option.
* underline cursor is now visible on underlined text
* new option: box-drawings-uses-font-glyphs=yes|no

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.7.2

#wayland #Terminal #TerminalEmulator

Don't like the new line- and box drawing characters in #FootTerminal 1.7?

The next release will have an option to revert to the old behavior, where font glyphs are used instead.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/445

Fun with sixel and git commit messages: https://twitter.com/12Me21_/status/1376561058165489664

Beware! This *will* crash (on the second run) #FootTerminal , unless you run a build that has https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/commit/00083125a12bc8809f5b6d498a85a880e268cc81 (latest git HEAD at the moment).

The first #FootTerminal patch release in the 1.7.x series is out!

#wayland #TerminalEmulator #Terminal

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.7.1

#FootTerminal 1.7.0 is out 🎉

The big new thing is URLs - both auto detected and OSC-8 based URLs.

Another pretty big thing is that foot now renders box drawing characters itself, instead of using font glyphs.

We've also added support for transparent sixels, improved double- and triple-click selection, and more :)

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.7.0

#wayland #Terminal #TerminalEmulator #Sixel

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/357 continues the work of URLs in #FootTerminal. This time, adding support for OSC-8. OSC-8 is an escape sequence that allows an appliation to emit HTML anchor style URLs.

This is very different from auto-detect URLs where the terminal does pattern matching and highlights what it thinks *look* like URLs. With OSC-8, there's no more guessing.

1/3

Last patch release of #FootTerminal in the 1.6.x series? Who knows... but 1.6.4 is out!

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.6.4

#wayland #TerminalEmulator #terminal

Running #FootTerminal on #FreeBSD?

Having issues with the window not closing when pressing ctrl+d, or by running 'exit'?

Fix for this is now available in the latest git version.

#wayland

URL support is coming to #FootTerminal.

This is a feature that wasn’t obvious it should be added to foot. Foot still claims to be minimalistic. The meaning of that is subjective though, and for some, URLs is crossing the border. For others, it is a core feature that simply *must* be available.

I myself have wavered back and forth. Most likely because up until now, I haven’t really used URLs in other terminal emulators, _at all_. Not clickable URLs, not URLs-piped-to-external-tools.

1/3

#FootTerminal 1.6.3 released!

Highlights:

* FreeBSD support
* IME - report cursor rectangle
* Fish shell completions
* Lots of bug fixes

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.6.3

#wayland #Terminal #TerminalEmulator

#FootTerminal has been ported to FreeBSD, thanks to Jan Beich!

It's available in latest git, and has also been backported to the 1.6 release branch, and will be officially included in the upcoming 1.6.3 point release.

But, it is already available as a port: https://www.freshports.org/x11/foot/

#freebsd #wayland #Terminal #TerminalEmulator

#FootTerminal is finally rendering box drawing characters and block elements by itself, instead of using font glyphs:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/263

#Wayland #TerminalEmulator #Terminal

With #FootTerminal (1.6 and later) , you can automatically enable/disable IME when you enter/leave vim's insert mode:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki#user-content-enabling-disabling-ime-when-entering-leaving-insert-mode-in-vim

The technique can of course be applied to any terminal application that lets you send custom escapes to the terminal.

Latest git version of fcft (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fcft) got support for "fontfeatures".

For #FootTerminal , this means you can now use alternative "stylistic sets" in OpenType fonts.

(No more looped 'k' characters in Fantasque Sans Mono 🙃 )

Are you interrested in IME support in #FootTerminal ?

There's a PR, https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/232, that could use some testing!

#Wayland #TerminalEmulator