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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Fedora 39 : Foot - the sway terminal.

Today, I will show how to use a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator named Foot.
You can install it easily with the DNF5 tool :
The project can be found on this codeberg repo.
On the sawy desktop environment, you can use Win+D keys just to type a command to start an application.
You can start easily by typing foot or you can type on an open terminal, see:
[mythcat@fedora ~]$ foot
warn: wayland.c:1509: fractional scaling not available
warn: wayland.c:1512: no server-side cursors available, falling back to client-side cursors
warn: fcft.c:583: failed to get full font name
warn: fcft.c:583: failed to get full font name
I used updatedb and locate commands to find the foot.ini file and change some settings like font size, and more :