xcb and wayland terminal emulator, with lua, cairo, and pango
- Shifted function/insert/del/end/etc keys, like what's done in urxvt
- Implement urgent and bell in Window
- Look into XEMBED
- Straighten out responsibilities in copy/pasting, and pick a better data type for passing around the data
- Numlock. I don't have a keypad.
- Custom colors, color resetting
- Media copy / 'print'
Borrows code and ideas from all over
- most code has been derived from st and rxvt-unicode, but xterm and vte were involved too.
- the excellent fmt library is embedded
At startup, a config file may be specified using the -c
or --config
, or rwte
will search the search for a config.lua
using xdg paths (~/.config/rwte
is
the most convenient place to put it). This file will be loaded and run in the
global context after loading the normal lua libs and the term
, window
, and
logging
modules described below (note that the terminal and window aren't yet
created, but handlers may be registered).
If the -b
of --bench
argument is supplied, rwte will exit after the config
file is loaded/run. Lua code can look for these arguments to run tests and
benchmarking.
The default library used for display is xcb. By specifying -x
of --wayland
on the command line, it'll use wayland instead. Note that wayland support is
missing some things (e.g., all clipboard), and isn't repainting properly. It's
a work in progress.
Re wayland repainting, now that we have multiple buffers, we need to use damage properly, as we don't fully repaint all the buffers, but we tell wayland to paint the whole buffer every time.
The config file is expected to assign to set a global config
object, and may
also connect event handlers for window
/ term
events.
See also: API docs
config
is a global lua table, assigned in the config file. Values in config
may be overridden by command line args to rwte. The expected contents and
possible values for fields in config
are documented by comments in the example
config.lua
.