A simple Linux/X11 VT220 terminal emulator featuring:

• reflowed unicode text

• enormous (millions of lines) history support and deduplication

• client-server mode (optional)

• user-defined key-bindings

• 24-bit color

• lean and mean implementation

Obtain the terminol source code, either by downloading and unpacking a package file, or by cloning the repository:

git clone https://github.com/bagnose/terminol.git
cd terminol

Build terminol (this requires pcre, xkbcommon, xcb, pango, cairo and a C++11 compiler):

# Establish a debug/GCC build directory (run 'configure' without any arguments
# to see other options):
./configure ../terminol-debug-gnu debug gnu
cd ../terminol-debug-gnu
make

Create a configuration file (see doc/sample-config). At the bare minimum you need to specify the font:

mkdir -p ~/.config/terminol
cat << EOF > ~/.config/terminol/config
set font-name "Meslo LG M"
set font-size 14
EOF

Launch terminol:

# Launch a standalone window:
./dist/bin/terminol

# or launch the server/daemon:
./dist/bin/terminols

# and start windows with:
./dist/bin/terminolc

Install terminol:

# This will copy the terminol binaries into ${INSTALLDIR}/bin:
make INSTALLDIR=/usr/local install

• highlighting and actions for user defined (regex) patterns

• reverse search