LilyTerm - A light and eazy-to-use terminal emulator for X.
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Description
LilyTerm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, based on the libvte library, and aims to be fast
and lightweight.
Environment
TERM Sets what type of terminal attempts to emulate. Please always set to "xterm" under
LilyTerm.
VTE_CJK_WIDTH Controls the width of some ideographs should be "single width (narrow)" or "double width
(wide)" in a vte teminal.
This environment should be set before creating a vte widget.
In LilyTerm, you may set the VTE_CJK_WIDTH of a new tab to 'wide' with right click menu
'New tab with specified locale' -> 'xx_XX.UTF-8 (Wide)' or 'UTF-8 (Wide)'.
PROMPT_COMMAND Customs the "Window Title" for shell.
The following is a reasonable example ~/.bashrc for bash:
case $TERM in
xterm*)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
;;
*)
;;
esac
The following is a reasonable example ~/.cshrc for csh/tcsh:
switch ($TERM)
case "xterm*":
setenv TITLE "%{\033]0;%m: %~\007%}"
breaksw
endsw
set prompt = "${TITLE}%# "
Please visit http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title.html for more details.
File
/etc/xdg/lilyterm.conf System configure file
~/.config/lilyterm/default.conf User's profile.
Use [Savesettings] in the right click menu to save the current tab's settings as default to the
specified profile.
Keyboard Control
The following key bindings may custom or disable by the right click menu [Setkeybinding].
<Ctrl><`> Disable/Enable hyperlinks, function keys and right click menu for temporary.
<Ctrl><T> Add a New tab with current directory.
<Ctrl><PgUp/PgDn> Switch to Prev/Next tab.
<Ctrl><Home/End> Switch to First/Last tab.
<Ctrl><[/]> Move current tab Forward/Backward.
<Ctrl><Up/Down> Move current tab to First/Last.
<Ctrl><F1~F12> Switch to 1st ~ 12th tab.
<Ctrl><O> Select all the text in the Vte Terminal box.
<Ctrl><+/-/Enter> Increase/Decrease/Reset the font size of current tab.
<Alt><F11/Enter> Switch between fullwindow/unfullwindow and fullscreen/unfullscreen state.
<Shift><Left/Right> Emulate a mouse Scroll Up/Down event on Vte Terminal box.
<Shift><Up/Down> Asks to scroll Up/Down 1 line on Vte Terminal box.
<Shift><PgUp/PgDn> Asks to scroll Up/Down on Vte Terminal box.
<Ctrl><Delete/Insert>
Copy the text to clipboard / Paste the text in clipboard.
<Shift><Delete/Insert>
Copy the text to primary clipboard / Paste the text in primary clipboard.
i.e. Emulate a middle button mouse click to copy/paste the text.
Some key bindings that disabled by default but maybe useful:
<Ctrl><Q>
Close current tab.
Using<Ctrl><D>or'exit'toclosetabsisrecommended.<Ctrl><N>
Open a new window with current directory.
<Ctrl><E>
Rename the current tab.
Name
LilyTerm - A light and eazy-to-use terminal emulator for X.
Options
-? | -h | --help
Display a brief help message.
-TTITLE | --titleTITLE
Specify the window title.
-RROLE | --roleROLE
Specify the WM_WINDOW_ROLE string of window.
-tNUMBER | --tabNUMBER
Open multi tabs when starting up.
-nTABNAMES | --tab_namesTABNAMES
Specify the tab names, separate with <Space>.
-dDIRECTORY | --directoryDIRECTORY
Specify the init directory when starting up.
-gGEOMETRY | --geometryGEOMETRY
Specify the geometry of window when starting.
A reasonable example value is "80x24+0+0", witch means "width x height {+-} xoffset {+-} yoffset"
(without space).
-l | -ls | --login
Make the shell invoked as a login shell.
-ut
Disable recording the session in lastlog, utmp and wtmp.
-H | --hold
Hold the terminal window open when the command following -e/-x terminated.
-s | --separate
Run in separate process.
-j | --join
Integrate new created tabs to the last accessed window.
It may be useful for launching multi commands with LilyTerm in a shell script.
-p | --profile
Got a profile sample.
-uPROFILE | --user_profilePROFILE
Use a specified profile.
-v | --version
Show the version information.
-eCOMMAND | -xCOMMAND | --executeCOMMAND
Run a command when starting up. Must be the final option.
See Also
xterm(1) LilyTerm 0.9.9.5 March 2013 LilyTerm(1)
Synopsis
lilyterm [-? | -h | --help] [-TTITLE | --titleTITLE] [-RROLE | --roleROLE] [-tNUMBER | --tabNUMBER]
[-nTABNAMES | --tab_namesTABNAMES] [-dDIRECTORY | --directoryDIRECTORY] [-gGEOMETRY |
--geometryGEOMETRY] [-l | -ls | --login] [-ut] [-H | --hold] [-s | --separate] [-j | --join]
[-p | --profile] [-uPROFILE | --user_profilePROFILE] [-v | --version] [-eCOMMAND | -xCOMMAND
| --executeCOMMAND]
Tips
DisplayUTF-8characterunderClocale
Execute the following command under LilyTerm:
bind "set convert-meta off"
bind "set output-meta on"
And use the right click menu to set the text encoding to "UTF-8".
LaunchLilyTermunderachrootjail
Extract xauthinfo to a file (under X):
xauth extract /PathToChroot/tmp/display $DISPLAY
Mount the devpts device and /tmp (may not necessary) before chroot into a chroot jail:
mount /dev/pts /PathToChroot/dev/pts -t devpts
mount -o bind /tmp /PathToChroot/tmp (may not necessary)
Merge the extracted xauthinfo and set the DISPLAY environ after chroot into the chroot jail:
xauth merge /tmp/display
export DISPLAY=:0
Launch LilyTerm directly, or run it under Xnest/Xephyr:
xinit ~/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/Xnest :1 -ac -geometry 800x600
or
xinit ~/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600
<Ctrl><S>and<Ctrl><Q>don'tworkunderVIM:
Use the following command to turn off 'flow-Control' under LilyTerm:
stty raw
or
stty -ixon
BSDUsers:
Please mount the procfs before launch LilyTerm:
mount -t procfs procfs /proc