Is a tiny, cross-platform terminal emulator (written in C).

Note

macOS won't build as libmaus doesn't have implementations for it. If you would be interested in making one for your own platform, it would be amazing if you could contribute!

OpenBSD

If you're on X11, you may want to increase the shm buffer limit as you may only be able to open a few windows.

In /etc/sysctl.conf, something like:

kern.shminfo.shmall=65536

Or immediately:

sysctl kern.shminfo.shmall=65536

65536 is more than enough pages.

Building:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build

If you don't have access to meson or don't want to install it, clone the libmaus repo and follow the manual build options there. An example compile for X11 would be like so:

cc -Iinclude source/cterm.c source/draw.c source/font.c source/term.c source/utils.c \
   /path/to/libmaus_x11.a -I/path/to/libmaus/include -I./ -lX11 -lXext -lXi -o cterm

About

cterm is a tiny terminal emulator I built from frustrations of not being able to use st between different platforms. Like st, it's very, small. Even more so than st itself.

For this reason, cterm lacks the "standard" terminal emulator features such as mouse selection, scrollback, fancy graphics, configuration files, the like; this is because, I don't need them. I achieve similar behavior just by, using a terminal multiplexer or even just VIM.

cterm also doesn't rely on any extra dependancies like FreeType. It uses libmaus as a Meson subproject; libmaus is a really small windowing library I made so that it can be cross platform.

Info

Only BDF fonts are supported as for now. If requested (or contributed), I have no problem with adding other formats but no vector font support! If you want to convert your vector font, you can use something like otf2bdf.

There is also a provided which uses otf2ttf to scale any font in a libary if needed.

Reloading the font can be done with AltR + r by default. See the config for more info on keybinds