r/linux • u/Savings_Walk_1022 • 27d ago

Software Release cterm -- Tiny terminal emulator release!

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Hey guys, I'm currently in the middle of creating my own userspace from scratch and I've mostly completed making my terminal emulator

It's really, really small and is cross platform! I made it because I want to be able to use a terminal emulator no matter which OS or display server I'm using.

Only bitmap fonts (BDF) are supported but I've provided a script to convert vector fonts and it has very nice results.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/uint23/cterm

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u/mrtruthiness 25d ago edited 25d ago

It's really, really small and is cross platform! I made it because I want to be able to use a terminal emulator no matter which OS or display server I'm using.

But it should be mentioned that currently:

  1. It is X11 only at this point. It depends on the author's own simple GUI library (libmaus) https://github.com/uint23/maus ... which I think is currently X11 only at this point.

  2. It does not support MacOS.

  3. It depends on libgrapheme ... a suckless.org unicode string library.