weltschmerz - A terminal emulator in Vala

Synopsis

weltschmerz is a small and simple terminal emulator built upon the Virtual Terminal Emulator widget. It’s written in Vala, supports clickable URLs and hyperlinks, can reload its configuration whilst running, and has basic search functionality.

As a VTE app, weltschmerz supports practically every contemporary terminal emulator feature. It is built to be a stable and practical terminal emulator for daily use.

Download

• weltschmerz-1.9.0.tar.gz (signature, verify?, archive, changelog)
• Git repository

Packages

• Gentoo Linux (through GURU)

Requirements

• VTE >= 2.91 (must be built with support for Vala)
• Vala >= 0.42
• GTK+ >= 3.24
• gettext

Usage & Configuration

See weltschmerz(1).

Build

weltschmerz can be built with any POSIX-conformant make or with Meson. The latter may be interesting to distribution packagers or people already comfortable with this particular build system.

Note: if your Vala compiler executable is not named valac, you need to export the environment variable VALAC containing the correct name before you can build weltschmerz:

export VALAC='valac-0.42'

Makefile

Run the following to build and install weltschmerz to the default location (/usr/local):

make install

The Makefile honors the environment variables PREFIX, DESTDIR, BINDIR, and MANDIR. For instance, if you want to install weltschmerz to a local directory, call make like so:

PREFIX=~/software/weltschmerz make install

Meson

Create the build directory and configure the Meson build like so:

meson setup build

The build can be configured extensively; for more information, see meson(1). If you want to install weltschmerz locally for use with GNU Stow, for example, pass --prefix=~/.local/stow/weltschmerz.

Once the build is set up, install weltschmerz:

meson install -C build