notcurses-info - Display information about the terminal environment
notcurses-info prints all the information it knows about the current
terminal environment, including material loaded from terminfo(5) (based
on the TERM environment variable), replies from the terminal in
response to our queries, and built-in heuristics.
The Unicode half block, quadrant, sextant, and Braille glyphs are
all included in the output. If their appearance is irregular, it might
behoove you to choose another font.
The first five lines (the Notcurses initialization banner; see
notcurses_init(3)) provide:
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- The Notcurses version and the derived terminal name, possibly including
the terminal version. If Notcurses was able to unambiguously query the
connected terminal, the internal name for the terminal will be shown.
Otherwise, the terminal described by the TERM environment variable
will be displayed. The terminal version is only acquired via query.
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- The current cell geometry, cell-pixel geometry, and the derived window
pixel geometry, the size of the crender structure, the number of
colors in the palette, and whether RGB TrueColor is supported.
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- The compiler name and version used to build Notcurses, the size of the
nccell structure, and the endianness with which Notcurses was
compiled. This buildtime endianness must match the runtime
endianness.
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- The version of libterminfo against which Notcurses was compiled.
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- The version and name of the multimedia backend.
The next five lines describe properties of the terminal
environment:
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- The first line indicates that a given capability is present with a plus
sign ('+'), or not present/detected with a minus sign ('-'):
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- af: Foreground color can be set
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- ab: Background color can be set
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- sum: Synchronized Update Mode is supported
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- vpa: Cursor can be moved to an absolute vertical coordinate
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- hpa: Cursor can be moved to an absolute horizontal coordinate
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- sgr0: Styling can be reset via a single escape
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- op: Colors can be reset via a single escape
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- fgop: Foreground can be reset via a single escape
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- bgop: Background can be reset via a single escape
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- bce: The back-color-erase property is in play
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- rect: Rectangular editing is available
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- The second line is more of the same:
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- bold: Boldface is available
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- ital: Italics are available
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- struck: Strikethrough is available
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- ucurl: Curled underlines are available
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- uline: Straight underlines are available
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- u7: Cursor position reporting
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- ccc: Palette can be reprogrammed
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- rgb: Colors can be specified as RGB wit eight bits/channel
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- el: Clearing can be performed through the end of the line
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- The third line also covers UTF8 and decoding capabilities:
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- utf8: This is a UTF8 environment
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- 2x1: Upper- and lower-half blocks are available
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- 2x2: Quadrant blocks are available
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- 3x2: Sextant blocks are available
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- 4x2: Braille characters are available
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- img: Images can be decoded
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- vid: Video can be decoded
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- indn: Multiple-line scrolling is available
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- gpm: Connection is established to the GPM server
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- kbd: The Kitty keyboard protocol is in use
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- The fourth line indicates the default background color, and whether that
color is treated as transparent by the terminal (only kitty is
known to do this), and the default foreground color. pmouse
indicates whether pixel-precise mouse events are supported.
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- The fifth line describes the available bitmap graphics. If Sixels are
available, the maximum number of color registers and maximum Sixel
geometry are reported. If Linux framebuffer graphics are available, that
is reported. If the Kitty graphics protocol is detected, that will be
reported with "rgba graphics are available"; if Kitty's
animation support is also present, that will be reported with "rgba
pixel animation support".
To the right of this material is the Notcurses homepage's URI, and
the Notcurses logo (the latter only if bitmap graphics are available).
The final eleven lines, only printed when in a UTF8 locale, show
various Unicode glyphs. The first four lines include the quadrant, sextant,
and box-drawing characters. The next four lines include the entire Braille
set. The following two lines include many of the Symbols for Legacy
Computing introduced in Unicode 13. The final line includes many emoji.
The behavior of notcurses-info (and indeed all of Notcurses) depends on
the TERM and LANG environment variables, the installed POSIX
locales, and the installed terminfo(5) databases.
tack(1), notcurses(3), terminfo(5)
nick black <nickblack@linux.com>.