sterm

Custom terminal based on VTE. There are many terminals available. Many of them are based on VTE, a library implementing a terminal emulator widget for GTK+. Some are highly configurable, some are small but none of them match exactly my expectations.

Here is a short survey:

• ROXterm
• Sakura
• Termit
• [evilvte][]
• gnome-terminal
• lilyterm
• st
• xfce-terminal
• vbeterm

sterm is very lightweight, do not expect much from it, it's a derivation of vbeterm.

Features

• No tab support
• No server support
• Use of VTE 2.90 (GTK3)
• Single text file configuration
• Color-theme support

Example Configuration

Configuration goes in $HOME/.config/sterm/sterm.conf

[main]
WordChars=-A-Za-z0-9:./?%&#_=+@~" 
Themes=SolarizedDark;SolarizedLight

[SolarizedDark]
Font=Terminus 12
Opacity=1.0
Bold=false
Cursor=#0f0f49499999
Foreground=#838394949696
Background=#00002b2b3636
Palette=#070736364242;#dcdc32322f2f;#858599990000;#b5b589890000;#26268b8bd2d2;#d3d336368282;#2a2aa1a19898;#eeeee8e8d5d5;#00002b2b3636;#cbcb4b4b1616;#58586e6e7575;#65657b7b8383;#838394949696;#6c6c7171c4c4;#9393a1a1a1a1;#fdfdf6f6e3e3

[SolarizedLight]
Font=Terminus 12
Opacity=1.0
Bold=false
Cursor=#586e75
Foreground=#657b83
Background=#fdf6e3
Palette=#eee8d5;#dc322f;#859900;#b58900;#268bd2;#d33682;#2aa198;#073642;#fdf6e3;#cb4b16;#93a1a1;#839496;#657b83;#6c71c4;#586e75;#002b36

Installation

Execute the following commands:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install