wayst

About

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

This is roughly alpha quality, expect bugs!

Features

• Unicode support
• Text reflow
• 24-bit colors
• Dynamic colors
• All text properties (squiggly underline, blinking, overline etc.)
• Resizable font
• Subpixel antialiasing
• Mouse reporting
• Scrollback
• Mouse text selection
• Clipboard
• Configurable keybindings
• Clickable links, OSC 8 links
• Command history and marks*
• Terminal image protocol and sixel graphics (experimental)

Limitations

• UTF8 mode only
• No Bidi support
• No font ligatures

To-Do

• Search
• Ibus support
• Single instance multi window mode
• All xterm and vte control sequences

Building

make
make install

Dependencies:

• OpenGL >= 2.1/ES 2.0
• freetype >= 2.10
• fontconfig
• xkbcommon [wayland]
• xrandr [X11]
• utf8proc [optional]
• notify-send [optional]

Build options

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 target OpenGL ES 2.0 instead of OpenGL 2.1 set renderer=gles20.

To build without libutf8proc set libutf8proc=off.

To build with debugging symbols set mode=debug or mode=debugoptimized.

Installation from AUR

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

yay -S wayst-git

Usage

Configuration file

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. For an example configuration file see config.example.

Shell integration

Wayst can use iTerm2 shell integration sequences or VTE prompt notifications to track command history.

Default Keybindings

Keys	Action
Ctrl+Shift+c	Copy to clipboard
Ctrl+Shift+x	Copy output of last command to clipboard*
Ctrl+Shift+v	Paste from clipboard
Ctrl+Shift+=	Increase font size
Ctrl+Shift+-	Decrease font size
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down	Scroll
Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down	Scroll by page
Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right	Jump to previous/next command output or mark*
Ctrl+Shift+u	Enter unicode character by hex code
Ctrl+Shift+k	Enter vi-like keyboard select mode
Ctrl+Shift+d	Start new instance in active work directory (set by OSC 7)
Ctrl+Shift+F12	HTML screen dump
Ctrl+Shift+\	Pipe to external program
LMB	Select text
RMB	Change selected region
MMB	Paste from primary selection
Shift+LMB	Select text in mouse reporting mode
Ctrl + LMB	Open link/Box select

License

MIT