13:01 <null_ptr_plus_pl> Hello everyone! I hope this is the channel to talk about the "foot" terminal emulator! I've just switched to wayland and discovered foot term, and I'm very impressed.

13:02 <null_ptr_plus_pl> functionality on applications like "vim" and "less". In other words: when I'm using vim/less theses key presses are normally sent to vim/less, but when I'm on my shell, foot receives these key presses and scrolls the scrollback buffer. This is awesome!

13:02 <null_ptr_plus_pl> There is one "feature" that I accidentally discovered while configuring foot that I wanted to confirm if it is actually a feature or a coincidence that can disappear in the future ( I've not found any mention of it in the docs). The feature I'm talking about is the ability to bind Control+d / Control+u to scrollback-down-half-page/scrollback-up-half-page to control foot's scrollback while keeping Control+d/Control+u

13:02 <null_ptr_plus_pl> With other terminal emulators out there that I tried (like alacritty), when you bind something to it in its configuration, they always "swallow" it and make it impossible to use them in the application running in the terminal

13:05 <dnkl> null_ptr_plus_pl: that's intended behavior. in short, all scrollback related actions are no-ops in the alt screen, which all fullscreen applications use

13:05 <dnkl> no-op = key press is passed through to the application

13:05 <null_ptr_plus_pl> Great! this is awesome!

13:06 <null_ptr_plus_pl> thank you

13:12 <ifreund> woah, I didn't know you can do that. Adding that to my config now xD

13:16 <dnkl> ifreund: 😁

13:47 <Arsen> huh, I hadn't even noticed that happens

13:47 <Arsen> net

13:47 <Arsen> neat*

16:16 <Pound_Hash> If the font I'm using doesn't have italics, will foot just slant the characters or will it invoke a different font that has italics?

16:16 <Pound_Hash> Fira Code

16:17 <Pound_Hash> In the context of only having one font specified (no fallbacks specified)

16:18 <Pound_Hash> Why is Vincent angry?

16:18 <Pound_Hash> Too much money spent on Diablo Immortal?

16:24 <dnkl> Pound_Hash: depends on how fontconfig has been configured. It will provide a list of fallbacks, and they could be different fonts with true italics, or an auto-slanted font.

16:24 <dnkl> But foot will not slant a font unless fontconfig tells it to.

16:24 <Pound_Hash> Okay, thanks. Let me look into that.

16:34 <Pound_Hash> If I'm only on one monitor (a laptop's), is there any practical difference between enabling and disabling DPI AWARE?

16:35 <Pound_Hash> I notice the size of the text changes, but I can compensate for that with by changing the font size.

18:26 <Pound_Hash_> test

18:43 <dnkl> Pound_Hash: besides the font size being slightly different, no

18:43 <Pound_Hash_> Okay, thanks again

18:43 <dnkl> without DPI aware, foot will always use a DPI of 96

18:44 <Pound_Hash_> Don't mind my random messages, I'm learning IRC and the Tiny IRC client...

20:59 <Pound_Hash> The manual says that the default window size is 700x500

21:00 <Pound_Hash> But when I run foot, it seems my window manager (sway) determines how large the window is

21:00 <Pound_Hash> What am I misunderstanding?

21:22 <ifreund> Pound_Hash: if you were to configure sway to start foot floating it would be 700x500

21:22 <ifreund> or if you were to open foot in a non-tiling window manager

21:23 <Pound_Hash> Okay, thanks