wef

  Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
  Features:
    * Fast
    * Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
    * Wayland native
    * DE agnostic
    * Server/daemon mode
    * User configurable font fallback
    * On-the-fly font resize
    * On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
    * Scrollback search
    * Keyboard driven URL detection
    * Color emoji support
    * IME (via text-input-v3)
    * Multi-seat
    * Synchronized Updates support
    * Sixel image support

Comment · 4 years ago

Here's another library I've been using for several years:

http://lorance.freeshell.org/csv/

Comment · 4 years ago

Ha Ha! You found me!

In my case swaywm (and previously i3wm).

I have 3 persistent programs that tile and the rest float - when I had swaywm set to 'tile', it became such a burden to write 'for_window' clauses for every new transitory program.

If I want it to tile, it's easy enough to $mod-Space it.

On my daily driver, firefox & mythtv have their own workspaces. On another workspace, emacs gets a half-screen and 2 terminals get a quarter screen. I set them up at session start and that's 95% of what I need. After that, everything gets a floating screen - which is what many of the apps expect and need.

I also have some scripts that automatically summon floaters from the scatchpad and fit them on the screen (without changing their size, so not tiling).

It's all here, if anyone is interested: https://gitlab.com/wef/dotfiles

Comment · 5 years ago

While we're being nostalgic, VDE, a WordStar clone, was another miracle of tiny code. I still run it now and then in a DOSEMU emulator on Linux.

https://www.sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home

Comment · 5 years ago

More discussion of the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/lbfhjc/a_better_cd/

Comment · 6 years ago

... and it's wayland-native!

Just a quick question while I'm here - what really is the point of using the GPU? Surely the CPU is adequate for a terminal's modest needs?

... I have an NVidia POS on my lappy but I don't game or use the GPU at all - in fact I removed the drivers so it doesn't drain the battery at all.