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NAME

       foot.ini - configuration file for foot(1)

DESCRIPTION

       foot uses the standard unix configuration format, with section based key/value pairs. The
       default section is usually unnamed, i.e. not prefixed with a [section]. However it can
       also be explicitly named [main], say if it needs to be reopened after any of the other
       sections.

       foot will search for a configuration file in the following locations, in this order:

           •   XDG_CONFIG_HOME/foot/foot.ini~/.config/foot/foot.iniXDG_CONFIG_DIRS/foot/foot.ini

SECTION: main

       shell
           Executable to launch. Typically a shell. Default: $SHELL if set, otherwise the user's
           default shell (as specified in /etc/passwd). You can also pass arguments. For example
           /bin/bash --norc.

       login-shell
           Boolean. If enabled, the shell will be launched as a login shell, by prepending a '-'
           to argv[0]. Default: no.

       term
           Value to set the environment variable TERM to. Default: foot

       font, font-bold, font-italic, font-bold-italic
           Comma separated list of fonts to use, in fontconfig format. That is, a font name
           followed by a list of colon-separated options. Most noteworthy is :size=n, which is
           used to set the font size. Note that the font size is also affected by the dpi-aware
           option.

           Examples:
               •   Dina:weight=bold:slant=italic
               •   Courier New:size=12
               •   Fantasque Sans Mono:fontfeatures=ss01

           For each option, the first font is the primary font. The remaining fonts are fallback
           fonts that will be used whenever a glyph cannot be found in the primary font.

           The fallback fonts are searched in the order they appear. If a glyph cannot be found
           in any of the fallback fonts, the dynamic fallback list from fontconfig (for the
           primary font) is searched.

           font-bold, font-italic and font-bold-italic allow custom fonts to be used for
           bold/italic/bold+italic fonts. If left unconfigured, the bold/italic variants of the
           regular font(s) specified in font are used. Note: you may have to tweak the size(s) of
           the custom bold/italic fonts to match the regular font.

           To disable bold and/or italic fonts, set e.g. font-bold to exactly the same value as
           font.

           Default: monospace:size=8 (font), not set (font-bold, font-italic, font-bold-italic).

       include
           Absolute path to configuration file to import.

           The import file has its own section scope. I.e. the including configuration is still
           in the default section after the include, regardless of which section the included
           file ends in.

               •   The path must be an absolute path, or start with ~/.
               •   Multiple include directives are allowed, but only one path per directive.
               •   Nested imports are allowed.

           Default: not set.

       line-height
           An absolute value, in points, that override line height from the font metrics.

           You can specify a height in pixels by using the px suffix: e.g. line-height=12px.

           See also: vertical-letter-offset.

           Default: not set.

       letter-spacing
           Spacing between letters, in points. A positive value will increase the cell size, and
           a negative value shrinks it.

           You can specify a letter spacing in pixels by using the px suffix: e.g. letter-
           spacing=2px.

           See also: horizontal-letter-offset.

           Default: 0.

       horizontal-letter-offset, vertical-letter-offset
           Configure the horizontal and vertical offsets used when positioning glyphs within
           cells, in points, relative to the top left corner.

           To specify an offset in pixels, append px: e.g. horizontal-letter-offset=2px.

           Default: 0.

       underline-offset
           Use a custom offset for underlines. The offset is, by default, in points and relative
           the font's baseline. A positive value positions the underline under the baseline,
           while a negative value positions it above the baseline.

           To specify an offset in pixels, append px: underline-offset=2px.

           If left unset (the default), the offset specified in the font is used, or estimated by
           foot if the font lacks underline positioning information.

           Default: unset.

       box-drawings-uses-font-glyphs Boolean. When disabled, foot generates
           box/line drawing characters itself. The are several advantages to doing this instead
           of using font glyphs:

               •   No antialiasing effects where e.g. line endpoints appear dimmed down, or
                   blurred.
               •   Line- and box characters are guaranteed to span the entire cell, resulting in
                   a gap-less appearance.
               •   No alignment issues, i.e. lines are centered when they should be.
               •   Many fonts lack some, or all, of the line- and box drawing characters, causing
                   fallback fonts to be used, which results in out-of-place looking glyphs (for
                   example, badly sized).

           When enabled, box/line drawing characters are rendered using font glyphs. This may
           result in a more uniform look, in some use cases.

           Default: no.

       dpi-aware
           auto, yes, or no.

           When set to yes, fonts are sized using the monitor's DPI, making a font of a given
           size have the same physical size, regardless of monitor. In other words, if you drag a
           foot window between different monitors, the font size remains the same.

           In this mode, the monitor's scaling factor is ignored; doubling the scaling factor
           will not double the font size.

           When set to no, the monitor's DPI is ignored. The font is instead sized using the
           monitor's scaling factor; doubling the scaling factor does double the font size.

           Finally, if set to auto, fonts will be sized using the monitor's DPI if all monitors
           have a scaling factor of 1. If at least one monitor as a scaling factor larger than 1
           (regardless of whether the foot window is mapped on that monitor or not), fonts will
           be scaled using the scaling factor.

           Note that this option typically does not work with bitmap fonts, which only contains a
           pre-defined set of sizes, and cannot be dynamically scaled. Whichever size (of the
           available ones) that best matches the DPI or scaling factor, will be used.

           Also note that if the font size has been specified in pixels (:pixelsize=N, instead of
           :size=N), DPI scaling (dpi-aware=yes) will have no effect (the specified pixel size
           will be used as is). But, if the monitor's scaling factor is used to size the font
           (dpi-aware=no), the font's pixel size will be multiplied with the scaling factor.

           Default: auto

       pad
           Padding between border and glyphs, in pixels (subject to output scaling), on the form
           XxY.

           This will add at least X pixels on both the left and right sides, and Y pixels on the
           top and bottom sides. The grid content will be anchored in the top left corner. I.e.
           if the window manager forces an odd window size on foot, the additional pixels will be
           added to the right and bottom sides.

           To instead center the grid content, append center (e.g. pad=5x5 center).

           Default: 2x2.

       resize-delay-ms
           Time, in milliseconds, of "idle time" before foot sends the new window dimensions to
           the client application while doing an interactive resize of a foot window. Idle time
           in this context is a period of time where the window size is not changing.

           In other words, while you are fiddling with the window size, foot does not send the
           updated dimensions to the client. Only when you pause the fiddling for resize-delay-ms
           milliseconds is the client updated.

           Emphasis is on while here; as soon as the interactive resize ends (i.e. when you let
           go of the window border), the final dimensions is sent to the client, without any
           delays.

           Setting it to 0 disables the delay completely.

           Default: 100.

       initial-window-size-pixels
           Initial window width and height in pixels (subject to output scaling), on the form
           WIDTHxHEIGHT. The height includes the titlebar when using CSDs. Mutually exclusive to
           initial-window-size-chars. Default: 700x500.

       initial-window-size-chars
           Initial window width and height in characters, on the form WIDTHxHEIGHT. Mutually
           exclusive to initial-window-size-pixels.'

           Note that if you have a multi-monitor setup, with different scaling factors, there is
           a possibility the window size will not be set correctly. If that is the case, use
           initial-window-size-pixels instead.

           Default: not set.

       initial-window-mode
           Initial window mode for each newly spawned window: windowed, maximized or fullscreen.
           Default: windowed.

       title
           Initial window title. Default: foot.

       locked-title
           Boolean. If enabled, applications are not allowed to change the title at run-time.
           Default: no.

       app-id
           Value to set the app-id property on the Wayland window to. The compositor can use this
           value to e.g. group multiple windows, or apply window management rules. Default: foot.

       bold-text-in-bright
           Semi-boolean. When enabled, bold text is rendered in a brighter color (in addition to
           using a bold font). The color is brightened by increasing its luminance.

           If set to palette-based, rather than a simple yes|true, colors matching one of the 8
           regular palette colors will be brightened using the corresponding bright palette
           color. Other colors will not be brightened.

           Default: no.

       word-delimiters
           String of characters that act as word delimiters when selecting text. Note that
           whitespace characters are always word delimiters, regardless of this setting. Default:
           ,│`|:"'()[]{}<>

       notify
           Command to execute to display a notification. ${title} and ${body} will be replaced
           with the notification's actual title and body (message content).

           ${app-id} is replaced with the value of the command line option --app-id, and defaults
           to foot.

           ${window-title} is replaced with the current window title.

           Applications can trigger notifications in the following ways:

               •   OSC 777: \e]777;notify;<title>;<body>\e\\

           By default, notifications are inhibited if the foot window has keyboard focus. See
           notify-focus-inhibit.

           Default: notify-send -a ${app-id} -i ${app-id} ${title} ${body}.

       notify-focus-inhibit
           Boolean. If enabled, foot will not display notifications if the terminal window has
           keyboard focus.

           Default: yes

       selection-target
           Clipboard target to automatically copy selected text to. One of none, primary,
           clipboard or both. Default: primary.

       workers
           Number of threads to use for rendering. Set to 0 to disable multithreading. Default:
           the number of available logical CPUs (including SMT). Note that this is not always the
           best value. In some cases, the number of physical cores is better.

SECTION: bell

       urgent
           When set to yes, foot will signal urgency to the compositor through the XDG activation
           protocol whenever BEL is received, and the window does NOT have keyboard foccus.

           If the compositor does not implement this protocol, the margins will be painted in red
           instead.

           Applications can enable/disable this feature programmatically with the CSI ? 1042 h
           and CSI ? 1042 l escape sequences.

           Default: no

       notify
           When set to yes, foot will emit a desktop notification using the command specified in
           the notify option whenever BEL is received. By default, bell notifications are shown
           only when the window does not have keyboard focus. See notify-focus-inhibit.

           Default: no

       command
           When set, foot will execute this command when BEL is received. Default: none

       command-focused
           Whether to run the command on BEL even while focused. Default: no

SECTION: scrollback

       lines
           Number of scrollback lines. The maximum number of allocated lines will be this value
           plus the number of visible lines, rounded up to the nearest power of 2. Default: 1000.

       multiplier
           Amount to multiply mouse scrolling with. It is a decimal number, i.e. fractions are
           allowed. Default: 3.0.

       indicator-position
           Configures the style of the scrollback position indicator. One of none, fixed or
           relative. none disables the indicator completely. fixed always renders the indicator
           near the top of the window, and relative renders the indicator at the position
           corresponding to the current scrollback position. Default: relative.

       indicator-format
           Which format to use when displaying the scrollback position indicator. Either
           percentage, line, or a custom fixed string. This option is ignored if indicator-
           position=none. Default: empty string.

SECTION: url

       launch
           Command to execute when opening URLs. ${url} will be replaced with the actual URL.
           Default: xdg-open ${url}.

       osc8-underline
           When to underline OSC-8 URLs. Possible values are url-mode and always.

           When set to url-mode, OSC-8 URLs are only highlighted in URL mode, just like auto-
           detected URLs.

           When set to always, OSC-8 URLs are always highlighted, regardless of their other
           attributes (bold, italic etc). Note that this does not make them clickable.

           Default: url-mode

       label-letters
           String of characters to use when generating key sequences for URL jump labels.

           If you change this option to include the letter t, you should also change the default
           [url-bindings].toggle-url-visible key binding to avoid a clash.

           Default: sadfjklewcmpgh.

       protocols
           Comma separated list of protocols (schemes) that should be recognized in URL mode.
           Note that only auto-detected URLs are affected by this option. OSC-8 URLs are always
           enabled, regardless of protocol. Default: http, https, ftp, ftps, file, gemini,
           gopher, irc, ircs.

       uri-characters
           Set of characters allowed in auto-detected URLs. Any character not included in this
           set constitutes an URL delimiter.

           Default:
           abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_.,~:;/?#@!$&%*+="'.

SECTION: cursor

       This section controls the cursor style and color. Note that applications can change these
       at runtime.

       style
           Configures the default cursor style, and is one of: block, beam or underline. Note
           that this can be overridden by applications. Default: block.

       blink
           Boolean. Enables blinking cursor. Note that this can be overridden by applications.
           Default: no.

       color
           Two RRGGBB values (i.e. plain old 6-digit hex values, without prefix) specifying the
           foreground (text) and background (cursor) colors for the cursor.

           Default: inversed foreground and background colors.

           Note that this value only applies to the block cursor. The other cursor styles are
           always rendered with the foreground color.

       beam-thickness
           Thickness (width) of the beam styled cursor. The value is in points, and its exact
           value thus depends on the monitor's DPI. To instead specify a thickness in pixels, use
           the px suffix: e.g. beam-thickness=2px. Default: 1.5

       underline-thickness
           Thickness (height) of the underline styled cursor. The value is in points, and its
           exact value thus depends on the monitor's DPI.

           To instead specify a thickness in pixels, use the px suffix: e.g. underline-
           thickness=2px.

           Note that if left unset, the cursor's thickness will scale with the font size, while
           if set, the size is fixed.

           Default: font underline thickness.

SECTION: mouse

       hide-when-typing
           Boolean. When enabled, the mouse cursor is hidden while typing. Default: no.

       alternate-scroll-mode
           Boolean. This option controls the initial value for the alternate scroll mode. When
           this mode is enabled, mouse scroll events are translated to up/down key events when
           displaying the alternate screen.

           This lets you scroll with the mouse in e.g. pagers (like less) without enabling native
           mouse support in them.

           Alternate scrolling is not used if the application enables native mouse support.

           This option can be modified by applications at run-time using the escape sequences CSI
           ? 1007 h (enable) and CSI ? 1007 l (disable).

           Default: yes.

SECTION: colors

       This section controls the 16 ANSI colors, the default foreground and background colors,
       and the extended 256 color palette. Note that applications can change these at runtime.

       The colors are in RRGGBB format (i.e. plain old 6-digit hex values, without prefix). That
       is, they do not have an alpha component. You can configure the background transparency
       with the alpha option.

       foreground
           Default foreground color. This is the color used when no ANSI color is being used.
           Default: dcdccc.

       background
           Default background color. This is the color used when no ANSI color is being used.
           Default: 111111.

       regular0, regular1 .. regular7
           The eight basic ANSI colors (Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White).
           Default: 222222, cc9393, 7f9f7f, d0bf8f, 6ca0a3, dc8cc3, 93e0e3 and dcdccc (a variant
           of the zenburn theme).

       bright0, bright1 .. bright7
           The eight bright ANSI colors (Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White).
           Default: 666666, dca3a3, bfebbf, f0dfaf, 8cd0d3, fcace3, b3ffff and ffffff (a variant
           of the zenburn theme).

       dim0, dim1 .. dim7
           Custom colors to use with dimmed colors. Dimmed colors do not have an entry in the
           color palette. Applications emit them by combining a color value, and a "dim"
           attribute.

           By default, foot implements this by reducing the luminance of the current color. This
           is a generic approach that applies to both colors from the 256-color palette, as well
           as 24-bit RGB colors.

           You can change this behavior by setting the dimN options. When set, foot will match
           the current color against the color palette, and if it matches one of the regularN
           colors, the corresponding dimN color will be used.

           If instead the current color matches one of the brightN colors, the corresponding
           regularn color will be used.

           If the current color does not match any known colors, it is dimmed by reducing the
           luminance (i.e. the same behavior as if the dimN options are unconfigured). 24-bit RGB
           colors will typically fall into this category.

           Note that applications can change the regularN and brighN colors at runtime. However,
           they have no way of changing the dimN colors. If an application has changed the
           regularN colors, foot will still use the corresponding dimN color, as configured in
           foot.ini.

           Default: not set.

       0 .. 255
           Arbitrary colors in the 256-color palette. Default: for 0 .. 15, see regular and
           bright defaults above; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#8-bit for an
           explanation of the remainder.

       alpha
           Background translucency. A value in the range 0.0-1.0, where 0.0 means completely
           transparent, and 1.0 is opaque. Default: 1.0.

       selection-foreground, selection-background
           Foreground (text) and background color to use in selected text. Note that both options
           must be set, or the default will be used. Default: inverse foreground/background.

       jump-labels
           Two color values specifying the foreground (text) and background colors to use when
           rendering jump labels in URL mode. Default: regular0 regular3.

       scrollback-indicator
           Two color values specifying the foreground (text) and background (indicator itself)
           colors for the scrollback indicator.

           Default: first regular color (black) for foreground, and fifth bright color (light
           blue) for background.

       urls
           Color to use for the underline used to highlight URLs in URL mode. Default: regular3.

SECTION: csd

       This section controls the look of the CSDs (Client Side Decorations). Note that the
       default is to not use CSDs, but instead to use SSDs (Server Side Decorations) when the
       compositor supports it.

       Note that unlike the colors defined in the colors section, the color values here are in
       AARRGGBB (i.e. plain old 8-digit hex values) format. I.e. they contain an alpha component
       - 00 means completely transparent, and ff fully opaque.

       Examples:

       •   ffffffff: white, fully opaque
       •   ff000000: black, fully opaque
       •   7fffffff: white, semi-transparent
       •   ff00ff00: green, fully opaque

       preferred
           Which type of window decorations to prefer: client (CSD), server (SSD) or none.

           Note that this is only a hint to the compositor. Depending on compositor support, and
           how it has been configured, it may instruct foot to use CSDs even though this option
           has been set to server, or render SSDs despite client or none being set.

           Default: server.

       size
           Height, in pixels (subject to output scaling), of the titlebar. Default: 26.

       color
           Titlebar color. Default: use the default foreground color.

       font
           Font to use for the title bar. This is a list of fonts, similar to the main font
           option. Note that the font will be sized using the title bar size. That is, all :size
           and :pixelsize attributes will be ignored. Default: primary font.

       border-width
           Width of the border, in pixels (subject to output scaling). Note that the border
           encompasses the entire window, including the title bar. Default: 0.

       border-color
           Color of border. By default, the title bar color is used. If the title bar color has
           not been set, the default foreground color (from the color scheme) is used. Default:
           titlebar color.

       button-width
           Width, in pixels (subject to output scaling), of the minimize/maximize/close buttons.
           Default: 26.

       button-color
           Foreground color on the minimize/maximize/close buttons. Default: use the default
           background color.

       button-minimize-color
           Minimize button's background color. Default: use the default regular4 color (blue).

       button-maximize-color
           Maximize button's background color. Default: use the default regular2 color (green).

       button-close-color
           Close button's background color. Default: use the default regular1 color (red).

SECTION: key-bindings

       This section lets you override the default key bindings.

       The general format is action=combo1...comboN. That is, each action may have one or more
       key combinations, space separated. Each combination is on the form mod1+mod2+key. The
       names of the modifiers and the key must be valid XKB key names.

       Note that if Shift is one of the modifiers, the key must not be in upper case. For
       example, Control+Shift+V will never trigger, but Control+Shift+v will.

       Note that Alt is usually called Mod1.

       xkbcli interactive-wayland can be useful for finding keysym names.

       A key combination can only be mapped to one action. Lets say you want to bind
       Control+Shift+R to fullscreen. Since this is the default shortcut for search-start, you
       first need to unmap the default binding. This can be done by setting action=none; e.g.
       search-start=none.

       noop
           All key combinations listed here will not be sent to the application. Default: not
           bound.

       scrollback-up-page
           Scrolls up/back one page in history. Default: Shift+Page_Up.

       scrollback-up-half-page
           Scrolls up/back half of a page in history. Default: not bound.

       scrollback-up-line
           Scrolls up/back a single line in history. Default: not bound.

       scrollback-down-page
           Scroll down/forward one page in history. Default: Shift+Page_Down.

       scrollback-down-half-page
           Scroll down/forward half of a page in history. Default: not bound.

       scrollback-down-line
           Scroll down/forward a single line in history. Default: not bound.

       clipboard-copy
           Copies the current selection into the clipboard. Default: Control+Shift+c XF86Copy.

       clipboard-paste
           Pastes from the clipboard. Default: Control+Shift+v XF86Paste.

       primary-paste
           Pastes from the primary selection. Default: Shift+Insert (also defined in mouse-
           bindings).

       search-start
           Starts a scrollback/history search. Default: Control+Shift+r.

       font-increase
           Increases the font size by 0.5pt. Default: Control+plus Control+equal Control+KP_Add.

       font-decrease
           Decreases the font size by 0.5pt. Default: Control+minus Control+KP_Subtract.

       font-reset
           Resets the font size to the default. Default: Control+0 Control+KP_0.

       spawn-terminal
           Spawns a new terminal. If the shell has been configured to emit the OSC 7 escape
           sequence, the new terminal will start in the current working directory. Default:
           Control+Shift+n.

       minimize
           Minimizes the window. Default: not bound.

       maximize
           Toggle the maximized state. Default: not bound.

       fullscreen
           Toggles the fullscreen state. Default: not bound.

       pipe-visible, pipe-scrollback, pipe-selected
           Pipes the currently visible text, the entire scrollback, or the currently selected
           text to an external tool. The syntax for this option is a bit special; the first part
           of the value is the command to execute enclosed in "[]", followed by the binding(s).

           You can configure multiple pipes as long as the command strings are different and the
           key bindings are unique.

           Note that the command is not automatically run inside a shell; use sh -c "command
           line" if you need that.

           Example:
               pipe-visible=[sh -c "xurls | uniq | tac | fuzzel | xargs -r firefox"]
               Control+Print

           Default: not bound

       show-urls-launch
           Enter URL mode, where all currently visible URLs are tagged with a jump label with a
           key sequence that will open the URL. Default: Control+Shift+u.

       show-urls-copy
           Enter URL mode, where all currently visible URLs are tagged with a jump label with a
           key sequence that will place the URL in the clipboard. Default: none.

SECTION: search-bindings

       This section lets you override the default key bindings used in scrollback search mode.
       The syntax is exactly the same as the regular key-bindings.

       cancel
           Aborts the search. The viewport is restored and the primary selection is not updated.
           Default: Control+g Control+c Escape.

       commit
           Exit search mode and copy current selection into the primary selection. Viewport is
           not restored. To copy the selection to the regular clipboard, use Control+Shift+c.
           Default: Return.

       find-prev
           Search backwards in the scrollback history for the next match. Default: Control+r.

       find-next
           Searches forwards in the scrollback history for the next match. Default: Control+s.

       cursor-left
           Moves the cursor in the search box one character to the left. Default: Left Control+b.

       cursor-left-word
           Moves the cursor in the search box one word to the left. Default: Control+Left Mod1+b.

       cursor-right
           Moves the cursor in the search box one character to the right. Default: Right
           Control+f.

       cursor-right-word
           Moves the cursor in the search box one word to the right. Default: Control+Right
           Mod1+f.

       cursor-home
           Moves the cursor in the search box to the beginning of the input. Default: Home
           Control+a.

       cursor-end
           Moves the cursor in the search box to the end of the input. Default: End Control+e.

       delete-prev
           Deletes the character before the cursor. Default: BackSpace.

       delete-prev-word
           Deletes the word before the cursor. Default: Mod1+BackSpace Control+BackSpace.

       delete-next
           Deletes the character after the cursor. Default: Delete.

       delete-next-word
           Deletes the word after the cursor. Default: Mod1+d Control+Delete.

       extend-to-word-boundary
           Extend current selection to the next word boundary. Default: Control+w.

       extend-to-next-whitespace
           Extend the current selection to the next whitespace. Default: Control+Shift+w.

       clipboard-paste
           Paste from the clipboard into the search buffer. Default: Control+v Control+y.

       primary-paste
           Paste from the primary selection into the search buffer. Default: Shift+Insert.

SECTION: url-bindings

       This section lets you override the default key bindings used in URL mode. The syntax is
       exactly the same as the regular key-bindings.

       Be careful; do not use single-letter keys that are also used in [url].label-letters, as
       doing so will make some URLs inaccessible.

       cancel
           Exits URL mode without opening an URL. Default: Control+g Control+c Control+d Escape.

       toggle-url-visible
           By default, the jump label only shows the key sequence required to activate it. This
           is fine as long as the URL is visible in the original text.

           But with e.g. OSC-8 URLs (the terminal version of HTML anchors, i.e. "links"), the
           text on the screen can be something completey different than the URL.

           This action toggles between showing and hiding the URL on the jump label.

           Default: t.

SECTION: mouse-bindings

       This section lets you override the default mouse bindings.

       The general format is action=combo1...comboN. That is, each action may have one or more
       key combinations, space separated. Each combination is on the form
       mod1+mod2+BTN_<name>[-COUNT]. The names of the modifiers must be valid XKB key names, and
       the button name must be a valid libinput name. You can find the button names using
       libinput debug-events.

       The trailing COUNT is optional and specifies the click count required to trigger the
       binding. The default if COUNT is omitted is 1.

       A modifier+button combination can only be mapped to one action. Lets say you want to bind
       BTN_MIDDLE to fullscreen. Since BTN_MIDDLE is the default binding for primary-paste, you
       first need to unmap the default binding. This can be done by setting action=none; e.g.
       primary-paste=none.

       selection-override-modifiers
           The modifiers set in this set (which may be set to any combination of modifiers, e.g.
           mod1+mod2+mod3, as well as none) are used to enable selecting text with the mouse
           irrespective of whether a client application currently has the mouse grabbed. These
           modifiers cannot be used as modifiers in mouse bindings. Because the order of bindings
           is significant, it is best to set this prior to any other mouse bindings that might
           use modifiers in the default set. Default: Shift

       The actions to which mouse combos can be bound are listed below. All actions listed under
       key-bindings can be used here as well.

       select-begin
           Begin an interactive selection. The selection is finalized, and copied to the primary
           selection, when the button is released. Default: BTN_LEFT.

       select-begin-block
           Begin an interactive block selection. The selection is finalized, and copied to the
           primary selection, when the button is released. Default: Control+BTN_LEFT.

       select-word
           Begin an interactive word-wise selection, where words are separated by whitespace and
           all characters defined by the word-delimiters option. The selection is finalized, and
           copied to the primary selection, when the button is released. Default: BTN_LEFT-2.

       select-word-whitespace
           Same as select-word, but the characters in the word-delimiters option are ignored. I.e
           only whitespace characters act as delimiters. The selection is finalized, and copied
           to the primary selection, when the button is released. Default: Control+_BTN_LEFT-2.

       select-row
           Begin an interactive row-wise selection. The selection is finalized, and copied to the
           primary selection, when the button is released. Default: BTN_LEFT-3.

       select-extend
           Interactively extend an existing selection, using the original selection mode (normal,
           block, word-wise or row-wise). The selection is finalized, and copied to the primary
           selection, when the button is released. Default: BTN_RIGHT.

       select-extend-character-wise
           Same as select-extend, but forces the selection mode to normal (i.e. character wise).
           Note that this causes subsequent select-extend operations to be character wise. This
           action is ignored for block selections. Default: Control+BTN_RIGHT.

       primary-paste
           Pastes from the primary selection. Default: BTN_MIDDLE.

TWEAK

       This section is for advanced users and describes configuration options that can be used to
       tweak foot's low-level behavior.

       These options are not included in the example configuration. You should not change these
       unless you understand what they do.

       Note that these options may change, or be removed at any time, without prior notice.

       When reporting bugs, please mention if, and to what, you have changed any of these
       options.

       scaling-filter
           Overrides the default scaling filter used when down-scaling bitmap fonts (e.g. emoji
           fonts). Possible values are none, nearest, bilinear, cubic or lanczos3. cubic and
           lanczos3 produce the best results, but are slower (with lanczos3 being the best and
           slowest).

           Default: lanczos3.

       overflowing-glyphs
           Boolean. When enabled, glyphs wider than their cell(s) are allowed to render into one
           additional neighbouring cell.

           One use case for this are fonts with wide italic characters that "bend" into the next
           cell. Without this option, such glyphs will appear "cut off".

           Another use case are fonts with "icon" characters in the Unicode private usage area,
           e.g. Nerd Fonts, or Powerline Fonts and legacy emoji characters like WHITE FROWNING
           FACE.

           Note: might impact performance depending on the font used. Especially small font sizes
           can cause many overflowing glyphs because of subpixel rendering.

           Default: yes.

       render-timer
           Enables a frame rendering timer, that prints the time it takes to render each frame,
           in microseconds, either on-screen, to stderr, or both. Valid values are none, osd, log
           and both. Default: none.

       box-drawing-base-thickness
           Line thickness to use for LIGHT box drawing line characters, in points. This value is
           converted to pixels using the monitor's DPI, and then multiplied with the cell size.
           The end result is that a larger font (and thus larger cells) result in thicker lines.
           Default: 0.04.

       box-drawing-solid-shades
           Boolean. When enabled, box drawing "shades" (e.g. LIGHT SHADE, MEDIUM SHADE and DARK
           SHADE) are rendered as solid blocks using a darker variant of the current foreground
           color.

           When disabled, they are instead rendered as checker box pattern, using the current
           foreground color as is.

           Default: yes.

       delayed-render-lower, delayed-render-upper
           These two values control the timeouts (in nanoseconds) that are used to mitigate
           screen flicker caused by clients writing large, non-atomic screen updates.

           If a client splits up a screen update over multiple write(3) calls, we may end up
           rendering an intermediate frame, quickly followed by another frame with the final
           screen content. For example, the client may erase part of the screen (or scroll) in
           one write, and then write new content in one or more subsequent writes. Rendering the
           frame when the screen has been erased, but not yet filled with new content will be
           perceived as screen flicker.

           The real solution to this is Application Synchronized Updates
           (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/merge_requests/2).

           The problem with this is twofold - first, it has not yet been standardized, and thus
           there are not many terminal emulators that implement it (foot does implement it), and
           second, applications must be patched to use it.

           Until this has happened, foot offers an interim workaround; an attempt to mitigate the
           screen flicker without affecting neither performance nor latency.

           It is based on the fact that the screen is updated at a fixed interval (typically
           60Hz). For us, this means it does not matter if we render a new frame at the beginning
           of a frame interval, or at the end. Thus, the goal is to introduce a delay between
           receiving client data and rendering the resulting state, but without causing a frame
           skip.

           While it should be possible to estimate the amount of time left until the next frame,
           foot's algorithm is currently not that advanced, but is based on statistics I guess
           you could say - the delay we introduce is so small that the risk of pushing the frame
           over to the next frame interval is also very small.

           Now, that was a lot of text. But what is it foot actually does?

           When receiving client data, it schedules a timer, the delayed-render-lower. If we do
           not receive any more client data before the timer has run out, we render the frame. If
           however, we do receive more data, the timer is re-scheduled. That is, each time we
           receive client data, frame rendering is delayed another delayed-render-lower
           nanoseconds.

           Now, while this works very well with most clients, it would be possible to construct a
           malicious client that keeps writing data at a slow pace. To the user, this would look
           like foot has frozen as we never get to render a new frame. To prevent this, an upper
           limit is set - delayed-render-upper. If this timer runs out, we render the frame
           regardless of what the client is doing.

           If changing these values, note that the lower timeout must be set lower than the upper
           timeout, but that this is not verified by foot. Furthermore, both values must be less
           than 16ms (that is, 16000000 nanoseconds).

           You can disable the feature altogether by setting either value to 0. In this case,
           frames are rendered "as soon as possible".

           Default: lower=500000 (0.5ms), upper=8333333 (8.3ms - half a frame interval).

       damage-whole-window
           Boolean. When enabled, foot will 'damage' the entire window each time a frame has been
           rendered. This forces the compositor to redraw the entire window. If disabled, foot
           will only 'damage' updated rows.

           There is normally no reason to enable this. However, it has been seen to workaround an
           issue with fractional scaling in Gnome.

           Note that enabling this option is likely to increase CPU and/or GPU usage (by the
           compositor, not by foot), and may have a negative impact on battery life.

           Default: no.

       grapheme-shaping
           Boolean. When enabled, foot will use utf8proc to do grapheme cluster segmentation
           while parsing "printed" text. Then, when rendering, it will use fcft (if compiled with
           HarfBuzz support) to shape the grapheme clusters.

           This is required to render e.g. flag (emoji) sequences, keycap sequences, modifier
           sequences, zero-width-joiner (ZWJ) sequences and emoji tag sequences. It might also
           improve rendering of composed characters, depending on font.

               •   foot must have been compiled with utf8proc support
               •   fcft must have been compiled with HarfBuzz support

           See also: grapheme-width-method.

           Default: yes

       grapheme-width-method
           Selects which method to use when calculating the width (i.e. number of columns) of a
           grapheme cluster. One of wcswidth, double-width and max.

           wcswidth simply adds together the individual width of all codepoints making up the
           cluster.

           double-width does the same, but limits the maximum number of columns to 2. This is
           more correct, but may break some applications since applications typically use
           wcswidth(3) internally to calculate the width. This results in cursor de-
           synchronization issues.

           max uses the width of the largest codepoint in the cluster.

           Default: wcswidth

       font-monospace-warn
           Boolean. When enabled, foot will use heuristics to try to verify the primary font is a
           monospace font, and warn if it is not.

           Disable this if you still want to use the font, even if foot thinks it is not
           monospaced.

           You may also want to disable it to get slightly faster startup times.

           Default: yes

       max-shm-pool-size-mb
           This option controls the amount of virtual address space used by the pixmap memory to
           which the terminal screen content is rendered.

           It does not change how much physical memory foot uses.

           Foot uses a memory mapping trick to implement fast rendering of interactive scrolling
           (typically, but applies to "slow" scrolling in general). Example: holding down the
           'up' or 'down' arrow key to scroll in a text editor.

           For this to work, it needs a large amount of virtual address space. Again, note that
           this is not physical memory.

           On a normal x64 based computer, each process has 128TB of virtual address space, and
           newer ones have 64PB. This is an insane amount and most applications do not use
           anywhere near that amount.

           Each foot terminal window can allocate up to 2GB of virtual address space. With 128TB
           of address space, that means a maximum of 65536 windows in server/daemon mode (for
           2GB). That should be enough, yes?

           However, the Wayland compositor also needs to allocate the same amount of virtual
           address space. Thus, it has a slightly higher chance of running out of address space
           since it needs to host all running Wayland clients in the same way, at the same time.

           In the off chance that this becomes a problem for you, you can reduce the amount used
           with this option.

           Or, for optimal performance, you can increase it to the maximum allowed value, 2GB
           (but note that you most likely will not notice any difference compared to the default
           value).

           Setting it to 0 disables the feature.

           Limitations:
               •   only supported on 64-bit architectures
               •   only supported on Linux

           Default: 512. Maximum allowed: 2048 (2GB).

SEE ALSO

       foot(1), footclient(1)

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