dwt's Introduction

DWT - Dumb Window Terminal

DWT is no longer maintained — you might want to use my Termite fork instead.

DWT is a simple, sleek emulator based on the VTE widget. Its main features are being nice-looking (according to my personal taste), not being (very) configurable, and being a good companion for tiling window managers like DWM (or my own XDWM fork). That being said, it works flawlessly and looks slick in any GTK+-based environment.

Screenshot

(Non-)Features

Mostly-fixed configuration:
- Grey on black color scheme with using Linux console color set.
- Converts terminal bell beeps in “urgent” X window flags. No visible or audible terminal bell, besides from that.
- Non-blinking cursor.
- Scrollback buffer, but no scrollbar displayed, to save screen real estate. Use Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown to scroll.
- Keybindings to change font size: Use Super-+ and Super-- to change sizes, Super-0 to reset the font.
- Mouse cursor auto-hide.
XTerm-style configurable window title.
Clickable URLs. Because on the Internet era being able to quickly open a browser is a must-have feature.
Single process, multiple terminal windows: the first time dwt is invoked, it will start a new process; in subsequent times, it will just create new windows in the existing process.
Uses current GTK+ widgets and code conventions. Apart from the popover and header bar widgets, modern facilities like GAction, property bindings, and GtkApplication are used.

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