NAME

LilyTerm - A light and eazy-to-use terminal emulator for X.

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

LilyTerm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, based on the libvte library, and aims to be fast and lightweight.

OPTIONS

-? | -h | --help

Display a brief help message.

-T TITLE | --title TITLE

Specify the window title.

-t NUMBER | --tab NUMBER

Open multi tabs when starting up.

-n TAB NAMES | --tab_names TAB NAMES

Specify the tab names, separate with <Space>.

-d DIRECTORY | --directory DIRECTORY

Specify the init directory when starting up.

-g GEOMETRY | --geometry GEOMETRY

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.

-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.

-u PROFILE | --user_profile PROFILE

Use a specified profile.

-v | --version

Show the version information.

-e COMMAND | -x COMMAND | --execute COMMAND

Run a command when starting up. Must be the final option.

KEYBOARD CONTROL

The following key bindings may custom or disable by the right click menu [Set key binding].

<Ctrl><`>: Disable/Enable hyperlinks, function keys and right click menu for temporary.
<Shift+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.
<Shift+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.
<Shift+Ctrl><C>: Copy the text to clipboard / Paste the text in clipboard.
<Shift+Ctrl><V>: 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:

<Shift+Ctrl><Q>: Close current tab.
Using <Ctrl><D> or 'exit' to close tabs is recommended.
<Shift+Ctrl><N>: Open a new window with current directory.
<Shift+Ctrl><E>: Rename the current tab.

FILE

/etc/xdg/lilyterm.conf: System configure file
~/.config/lilyterm/default.conf: User's profile.

Use [Save settings] in the right click menu to save the current tab's settings as default to the specified profile.

TIPS

Display UTF-8 character under C locale

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".

Launch LilyTerm under a chroot jail

Extract xauth info 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 xauth info 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

xinit ~/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600

<Ctrl><S> and <Ctrl><Q> don't work under VIM:

Use the following command to turn off 'flow-Control' under LilyTerm:

stty raw

stty -ixon

BSD Users:

Please mount the procfs before launch LilyTerm:

mount -t procfs procfs /proc

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.

AUTHOR

Lu, Chao-Ming (Tetralet) <tetralet@gmail.com>