Termite is a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
It provides a fast terminal experience and pleasant array of keyboard-centric features.
It is a modal application, similar to Vim, with an insert mode and selection mode where keybindings have different functions. Termite starts in insert mode by default. Insert Mode is the default mode common to most terminal emulators. This is where you enter commands and interact with the programs running within termite. Text may be selected using the mouse, or by using selection-mode keys.
In Selection Mode you interact with the interface of termite and the visual representation of the programs running within it. You can search, mark and copy contents from the display for use in other programs.
Features include:
- Very minimal. It uses little resources.
- Easy to configure.
- Supports transparency along with both the 256 color and true color (16 million colors) palettes. Termite supports true transparency via color definitions that specify an alpha channel value. This requires a compositor to be running.
- Similar look and feel to urxvt.
- Vim-like behavior.
- The Hints Mode is meant for accessing urls outputted to the terminal. qWhen active, links can be launched with a few keypresses.
- Supports true color palettes, meaning that it allows for up to 16,777,216 possible colors.
- Simple font resizing.
- Can read its configuration from various location.
Website: github.com/thestinger/termite
Support:
Developer: Daniel Micay and many contributors
License: GNU Library General Public License version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version
Termite is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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