Foot Reviews and Details

Is Foot good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• foot with true-color tmux support (à la Alacritty)

  I find foot, the default terminal in Wayland, either supremely underrated or SEO-proof due to its name. It's easy to configure and fast, and I especially love being able to include other files like color schemes. So when I started using tmux dailly I was dismayed I might have to switch to Alacritty or kitty for Neovim to look right, because Googling "foot ________" does not lead anywhere, and its documentation is... - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops

  If I understood you right, some terminal emulators support this: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot#jumping-between-prompts. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library

  I've seen some interesting work in doing Wayland by hand: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/wayland_from_scratch.html I'd also look at the work done on minimal wayland projects like [foot](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot), which supports wayland well and seems to be written by hand (see: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/src/branch/master/wayland.c). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Okay, I Like WezTerm

  I've migrated to Wez already. I actually had issues with them too but wasn't as bad as Kovid. More like what you said "Not our problem, it's X's problem." (Brew devs love to do this too) Leaves a bad taste in my mouth but dismissal is better than dismissal + gaslighting + insulting. Plus, Alacritty just hasn't been a great editor. (I wish foot would build a cross platform version[0]) [0]... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag

  You could maybe find out where the delay is by using st's Xembed support? Create a window with tabbed¹, open st in to it with "st -w -e true". If it is close to the monocle time, it is probably the other windows handling the resize event that is causing the slowdown not layout position. To prove it to myself: I'm using river² and I can see a doubling-ish of startup time with foot³, if I allow... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd

  > foot is a lightweight terminal emulator designed for Wayland, focusing on minimal resource usage while maintaining performance. https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot For those out of the loop. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd

  I had never heard about it either. Here is the project official repository: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

  Nice, I like lightweight and modern terminal emulators. Just installed kitty and compared it in a sloppy way to foot [0] (by running `xxd /dev/urandom` side-by-side) and foot appears to be faster. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator

  Since it's the year of Wayland desktop I prefer foot https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot Renders faster than Alacritty or kitty. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Terminal Latency

  It would be an interesting addition forbthe benchmark, although it's Wayland only. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)

  But it's only for wayland, so I need to use alacritty on macOS. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator

  Alacritty is not minimal in its memory consumption. Foot is probably the best wayland minimal terminal emulator with an average memory consumption of ~2mb per instance. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Change transparency and color pallet of foot terminal ?

  Did you have a look at this page? It includes a themes folder. Also this page specifically mentions transparency. Source: over 2 years ago

• Anyone here use tiling window managers?

  Hi! HHKB user since 2004. Linux user since '95. I've been using tiling window managers for about 20 years. I've tried a few. Ratpoison first, then ion, then xmonad, then spectrwm (which is my favourite), but since I moved to wayland a couple of years ago, I've settled on sway (https://swaywm.org/). Meta-Return spawns a terminal (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot, which is blazingly fast, using very little resources).... Source: over 2 years ago

• Kitty says "I wont let you draw that font glyph"

  Another alternative, if you're on Linux maybe check out foot. Haven't tested it myself but have heard good things about it. Source: over 2 years ago

• CONFIG_VT=n in 2023

  Yeah, in hindsight, those names are very hard to Google. Lol, Here is cage https://github.com/Hjdskes/cage And foot https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot. Source: over 2 years ago

• What terminal emulator are you using?

  I use foot; [dnkl/foot: A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot). I've use kitty and alacritty in the past as well. Both are fine, but I currently like foot a little more. Source: over 2 years ago

• select only text with mouse in st?

  I don't know how to exactly phrase this, but in foot it has a feature where that if you drag text, it selects only text and not spaces rendered by the terminal. Source: almost 3 years ago

• What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?

  If you're using Wayland, foot is fast, lightweight, and has good color and font support: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Terminal recommendations?

  If you are using wayland you could try foot. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Which Terminal Emulator Do You Use? Any Good Recommendation Rather Than Hyper?

  Https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot (respectively, https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/foot). Switched from alacritty, both of them are good. Source: about 3 years ago