Harakara Terminal

A simple terminal built in zig using gtk and the VTE library.

What's this?

So as already stated, this is just a simple terminal written in zig using the gtk and the vte libraries, which was developed because i wanted to learn about graphical native applications and specially about terminals in linux.

Also huge thanks to the anterminal project which I got interested previously as it gave me the idea of implementing my own terminal using vte but in this case using the zig programming language which have been catching recently lot of my attention.

Installation

First install these dependencies:

• vte-2.91 dev library
• gtk+-3.0 dev library
• zig (0.13.0)

Note

To check if they're installed, use this command pkg-config --cflags --libs vte-2.91 gtk+-3.0

Then run these commands:

git clone https://github.com/AlphaTechnolog/harakara-terminal harakara-terminal
cd harakara-terminal

Then install the binary with this command:

sudo zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe --prefix /usr install

Then you'll be able to just run Harakara to open the terminal.

Configuration

In the first run harakara will create a config file at ~/.config/harakara/config.toml, so you can look there and make your modifications, like the terminal colorscheme and the font size.

Tips and tricks

• Use ctrl and + / ctrl and - to zoom in and zoom out the terminal
• Use ctrl and 0 to reset terminal zoom
• Use ctrl + shift + c and ctrl + shift + v to copy/paste content in the terminal.

Thanks

• anterminal: For the first codebase
• zig-vte: Which helped me to see an example on how to link gtk and vte and also gave ideas on how to make the zig bindings (even if they're outdated there D:)