foot

What foot is

foot is a free, minimal terminal emulator for Linux systems running Wayland. It supports native Wayland and is designed to work across desktop environments. Server mode lets multiple terminal windows share a process, fonts, and glyph cache. Display options include configurable font fallback, font and DPI adjustment while running, color emoji, true color, and Sixel images. Users can search scrollback and detect URLs with the keyboard. foot also supports SSH, scripting, text input through text-input-v3, and multiple seats. With shell support for OSC 7, a new terminal can open in the current working directory; OSC 133 enables prompt navigation. URLs open with xdg-open by default, though the launch command can be changed in configuration. Settings use a foot.ini file in the user's XDG configuration directory. The project is MIT licensed. Installation guidance describes building with Meson and Ninja, with Wayland protocols and ncurses among the build requirements. Full PGO builds using the real binary must run in a Wayland session. Bug reports go to the issue tracker, and questions are welcomed in the #foot IRC channel on Libera.Chat.