VTE is a GTK widget that is designed to create virtual terminal emulators. GNOME Terminal, ROXTerm and evilvte are a few examples of terminal emulators that use the VTE widget. With the case of kermit, although it is a "yet another" VTE implementation, it aims to keep everything simple and customizable while providing some additional features.
The project is inspired by Vincent Bernat's article and also his implementation of a custom VTE-based terminal. Terminal features and appearance are mostly influenced by Rxvt, termite and st.
Table of Contentsmkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd src/
gcc -s -O3 -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations $(pkg-config --cflags vte-2.91) kermit.c -o kermit.o $(pkg-config --libs vte-2.91)
* kermit
depends on vte3 and gtk3 packages.
$SHELL
)kermit [-h] [-v] [-d] [-c config] [-t title] [-w workdir] [-e command]
[-h] shows help
[-v] shows version
[-d] enables the debug messages
[-c config] specifies the configuration file
[-t title] sets the terminal title
[-w workdir] sets the working directory
[-e command] sets the command to execute in terminal
Key Action ctrl
+ alt
+ c
Copy to clipboard ctrl
+ alt
+ v
Paste from clipboard ctrl
+ alt
+ t
/return
Open a new tab ctrl
+ alt
+ n
Open a new window ctrl
+ alt
+ r
Reload configuration file ctrl
+ alt
+ d
Load default configuration ctrl
+ alt
+ q
Exit the terminal ctrl
+ alt
+ k
/up
Increase font size ctrl
+ alt
+ j
/down
Decrease font size ctrl
+ alt
+ equals
/plus
Reset font size to default ctrl
+ alt
+ <num>
Switch to tab with number <num>
ctrl
+ alt
+ l
/right
/pageup
Switch to next tab ctrl
+ alt
+ h
/left
/pagedown
Switch to previous tab ctrl
+ alt
+ backspace
Close the current tab
The default modifiers (ctrl
+ alt
) can be set to ctrl
+ shift
using the config file. Key bindings can be overridden by custom key bindings. See Configuration / Key Bindings for more information.
Most of the settings including font, opacity and colors can be changed via the config file. The default configuration file is available here.
kermit
looks for configuration file in ~/.config/kermit.conf
The terminal theme can be changed by either editing the config file manually or using the base16 color schemes in orhun/base16-kermit repository.
kermit
uses a PangoFontDescription which is retrieved from the kermit.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 a 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/bindi [KEY]~"[COMMAND]"
Send command to the terminal.
Send command to the terminal and execute.
Execute internal command
Examples:
bindx f~"df -h"
bind r~"rm -i "
bind p~"ps aux | grep "
bind k~"kill -9 "
bindi c~"copy"
Currently available internal commands (bindi
):
copy
: copy to clipboardpaste
: paste from clipboardreload-config
: reload configdefault-config
: load default confignew-tab
: open new tabexit
: exit kermitinc-font-size
: increase font size by 1dec-font-size
: decrease font size by 1default-font-size
: reset font size to defaultnext-tab
: go to next tabprev-tab
: go to previous tabclose-tab
: close current tabnew-window
: open new window with same working directory (requires vte.sh
).In order to change the padding of the terminal, create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
if it does not exist, 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 the both configuration files.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orhun/kermit/master/.config/kermit.conf --output ~/.config/kermit.conf && \ printf "VteTerminal,\nTerminalScreen,\nvte-terminal {\n\tpadding: 3px 2px 2px 1px;\n}\n" > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
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