# Termite

Termite is a minimal and lightweight terminal emulator designed for use with tiling window managers. It is a modal application, similar to Vim, having an insert mode and a command mode, during which keybindings have different functions. Its configuration file allows for customizations such as color and keybindings. Termite supports transparency and 256 colors. It is designed with a look and feel similar to urxvt, but with fewer dependencies and lower resource usage.

## Installation

Termite is based on the vte terminal emulator library, and is available from the Arch User Repository in the package termite-git.

## Getting Started

Termite starts in insert mode by default. Text may be selected using the mouse, or by using command-mode keys. In insert mode, `Ctrl-Shift-c` may be used to copy selected text to the X clipboard; `Ctrl-Shift-v` to paste. `Ctrl-tab` starts scrollback completion, and `Ctrl-Shift-up`/`Ctrl-Shift-down` scroll the screen up or down. `Ctrl-Shift-space` enters command-mode, which changes keybindings and behavior. Many commands are borrowed from Vim, for example `v` for visual mode, `Shift-v` for visual line mode, `Ctrl-v` for visual block mode, `y` to copy ("yank") selected text, `/` and `?` for searching, `w`, `b`, `^`, `$` for movement, and `Escape` to go back to insert mode.

## See Also

Readme for information and a full list of keybindings.

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- Terminal emulators