dingbig / literm

A terminal emulator using QtQuick.

about

literm is a terminal emulator for Linux first and foremost, but it is also usable elsewhere (on Mac). The design goal is to be simplistic while still providing a reasonable amount of features.

status

This probably won't eat your homework, but I'd treat it with a dose of caution all the same. It has seen a fair amount of real world use through fingerterm, but there may still be bugs lurking.

This having been said, feel free to give it a shot and file bugs - ideally with pull requests, but at the least with as much information about how to reproduce them as possible.

technology

literm is implemented using QML to provide a fast, and fluid user interface. The terminal emulator side is in C++ (also using Qt). It is exposed as a plugin to allow reuse in other applications or contexts.

building

qmake && make

.. should get you most of the way there, assuming you have qmake & Qt easily available. After that, run:

./literm

history

literm started off life as fingerterm, a terminal emulator designed for touch-based interaction, written by Heikki Holstila for the Nokia N9 and Jolla's Sailfish OS devices.

I decided to take it a bit further, specifically: giving it a desktop-friendly interface, adding some odd features here and there, and fixing things up as I found them.

It is also partly inspired by Yat, a terminal emulator by Jørgen Lind, but it does not share any code from it.

differences from fingerterm

Notable changes since forking from fingerterm:

• Separate desktop UI (mobile UI is still intact)
• Rewritten terminal rendering using QtQuick rather than software rendering
• 24bit color support
• Improved parsing performance
• Support for underlined, italic, and blinking text attributes
• Support for bracketed paste mode (used by zsh and others), and other escapes
• Sends cursor scroll escapes when scrolling in applications like vim