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softty

A minimal, fast Wayland terminal emulator written in Rust.

Features

Native Wayland client, no X11 or XWayland
Fast startup (10-15ms) and low memory usage
Software rendering with shared-memory buffers, no GPU or OpenGL required
Unicode-aware, including correct width for wide characters
Full keyboard layout support through xkbcommon
Configurable through a TOML config file

Benchmark

Startup time and memory usage, compared against foot:

Benchmark 1: foot true (40 runs)
                   mean ±     σ    min …   max
  Wall Time [ms]   79.0 ±   7.0   74.3 … 108.6
  Memory [MiB]     31.6 ±   0.1   31.4 …  31.8

Benchmark 2: softty -e true (183 runs)
                   mean ±     σ    min …   max
  Wall Time [ms]   13.1 ±   1.1   11.9 …  17.1   -83.4%  (6.0x faster)
  Memory [MiB]      9.3 ±   0.1    9.0 …   9.4   -70.7%  (3.4x less)

Installation

Arch Linux

yay -S softty-git

Other

Softty is not available on other repositories yet, please build it from source.

Building

Requires Rust 1.70 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/socatlolmeow/softty
cd softty
cargo build --release

The binary ends up in target/release/softty.

Usage

softty
softty -e <command>

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

GPL-3.0

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