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• Implement one-shot toggle to copy text while mouse tracking is active. #588

New configurable menu button:

Closes #588

Configuration example (~/.config/vtm/settings.xml)

<config>
  <term>
    <item label=" HTML " data=none type=Option action=TerminalSelectionOneShot>
      <label="\e[48:2:0:128:128;38:2:0:255:255m HTML \e[m" data=html/>
      <notes>
        " One-shot toggle to copy as HTML \n"
        " while mouse tracking is active. "
      </notes>
    </item>
    <item label=" Text " data=none type=Option action=TerminalSelectionOneShot>
      <label="\e[48:2:0:128:0;38:2:0:255:0m Text \e[m" data=text/>
      <notes>
        " One-shot toggle to copy as Text \n"
        " while mouse tracking is active. "
      </notes>
    </item>
    <item label="One-Shot" data=none type=Option action=TerminalSelectionOneShot>
      <label="\e[48:2:0:128:0;38:2:0:255:0m  Text  \e[m" data=text/>
      <label="\e[48:2:0:128:128;38:2:0:255:255m  HTML  \e[m" data=html/>
      <notes>
        " One-shot toggle to copy as Text/HTML \n"
        " while mouse tracking is active.      "
      </notes>
    </item>
  </term>
</config>

https://github.com/directvt/vtm/assets/11535558/c8049348-72fe-40f9-b4f7-85621248b463

Changes

• Fix wide taskbar menu layout (config/menu/wide=on). https://github.com/directvt/vtm/issues/584#issuecomment-2068393457

Changes:

• Revise title/footer rendering in GUI mode (fix shadows and overbright). #571
• Add a side border option config/term/layout/border (=0 by default). #584: settings.xml:

  <config>
      <term>
          <layout>
              <oversize=0 opacity=0xC0/>  <!-- Scrollback horizontal (left and right) oversize. (for convenient horizontal scrolling). -->
              <border=1/>                 <!-- Viewport's left and right border. -->
          </layout>
      </term>
  </config>
  

• config/term/fields section renamed to config/term/layout
• config/term/fields/size option renamed to the config/term/layout/oversize section
• config/term/fields/lucent option renamed to config/term/layout/oversize/opacity

Changes

• Switch to ARGB pixel format (0xaarrggbb) from ABGR. All color settings in your current configurations are affected - the red channel has been swapped with the blue channel. This had to be done for compatibility with GUI mode.
• Terminal: Fix viewport reset when changing selection mode. #584
• Introducing a graphical window that can run on various Windows platforms starting with Windows 8.1 (including Window Server 2019 Core). #571
  • vtm automatically switches to the graphical mode if it is launched by the graphical shell (explorer.exe), or by the start vtm.exe command (e.g. on Windows Core).
  • Text cell rendering is not implemented. It is just a proof of concept.
  • The vtm server starts in the background, despite the fact that its interface is not rendered yet.
  • It is not yet clear whether we need to involve the GPU here for rendering. It's not a big deal, but at the moment it seems that software rendering is quite enough (60fps, etc). Over time it will become clear.
  • Colored emojis are funny on Windows8:
  • On Windows Server Core (which is desktopless), the system window manager doesn't support "overbright" pixels (it requires alpha-premultiplied pixel values), so translucent windows are a little buggy, but that's not a big deal:
  • Windows PE is also supported:

Changes

• Fix PowerShell/PSReadLine input echo on Windows. #581

Changes

• Add color cursor support (OSC 12/112): Set/reset cursor color:

  printf "\e]12;rgb:00/ff/00\e\\"  # Set cursor color to green.
  printf "\e]112;\e\\"             # Reset cursor color to default.
  

  Run terminal with red cursor:

  printf "vtm.run(id=Term cfg='<config><term><cursor><color bgc=reddk/></cursor></term></config>')" | vtm
  

  Set red cursor in settings.xml:

  <config>
    <term>
      <cursor>
        <style="block"/> <!-- Cursor style: underline | block -->
        <blink=400ms/>       <!-- Cursor blink period. Set to zero for a steady cursor. -->
        <show=true/>
        <color bgc=reddk fgc=default /> <!-- Cursor cell color. By default, the cursor color (bgc) is set to either black or white depending on the lightness of the underlying text background. -->
      </cursor>
    </term>
  </config>
  

• Make the terminal window opaque by default.
• Make window shadow configurable:

  <config>
    <appearance>
      <defaults>
        <shadow> <!-- Window shadow configuration. -->
          <enabled = true />
          <blur = 3 />         <!-- Blur radius (in cells). Default is 3. -->
          <bias = 0.37 />      <!-- Shadow contour bias [0.0 - 1.0]. Default is 0.37 -->
          <opacity = 105.5 />  <!-- Opacity level (alpha) [0.0 - 255.0]. Default is 105.5 -->
          <offset = 2,1 />     <!-- 2D offset relative to the window (in cells). Default is 2,1. -->
        </shadow>
      </defaults>
    </appearance>
  </config>
  

v0.9.75b

Changes

• Make terminal scrollback transparent by default to provide clear boundaries for the console applications output:

  <config>
    <term>
      <color>
        <bground = transparent />  <!-- Independent background color of the scrollback canvas. Set to 0x00ffffff(default) to sync with SGR49 (default background). -->
      </color>
    </term>
  </config>
  

Changes

• Add window shadows:
• Make the terminal scrollback background color independent and configurable:

  <config>
    <term>
      <color>
        <bground = transparent />  <!-- Independent background color of the scrollback canvas. Set to 0x00ffffff(default) to sync with SGR49 (default background). -->
      </color>
    </term>
  </config>
  

  
• Remove taskbar menu item's attributes: bgc=..., fgc=..., slimmenu=... (use cfg=... attribute instead).

  echo "vtm.set(id=Azure label='Azure Terminal' type=dtvt cmd='vtm -r term' cfg='<config><term><color><default fgc=0xFFffff00 bgc=bluedk/></color></term></config>')" | vtm
  

• Add support for styled and colored underlining (SGR-4:*, SGR-58/59).
• Fix bug with CSI subparameters parsing. repro:

  printf "\e[48:2::255:255:255mWhite\e[m\n"
  printf "\e[48:2:255:255:255mWhite\e[m\n"
  

Changes

• Fix semantic block selection

Changes

• Fix standalone terminal focus, #575
• Render colored whitespaces instead of shaded block glyphs "▓▒░".
• Add support for selecting semantically (OSC 133) homogeneous blocks with the mouse (4x left-click).
• Add semantic markers for cmd.exe by default (OSC 133).
• Built-in terminal/teletype: Change the multiple left click behavior:
  • Double left click: Select a word.
  • Triple left click: Select paragraph.
  • Quadruple left click: Select the entire scrollback buffer or semantic block (when using OSC 133).
  • Quintuple left click: Select the entire scrollback buffer.