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brew install foot

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overview

Package summary

Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

foot
footclient

history

Project history and usage

foot is a fast, lightweight Wayland-native terminal emulator whose own README emphasizes low dependency, disk, and memory footprint; desktop-environment independence; a server/daemon mode; searchable scrollback; URL handling; color emoji; true color; sixel images; and modern terminal protocol support.

Project history

The project is developed on Codeberg by dnkl and is written for Wayland rather than for X11 compatibility. Its README presents foot as a focused terminal emulator, while its installation guide documents Meson-based builds and the author's related libraries fcft and tllist as part of the build ecosystem.

The name is explained by the maintainer as a contraction from 'foo terminal' through 'footerm' to 'foot', matching the small, utilitarian naming style of the project.

Adoption history

foot became notable in Wayland-oriented Linux packaging because it is designed as a native Wayland terminal with its own terminfo. The installation guide notes that ncurses has included a version of foot's terminfo since the 2021-07-31 ncurses release, while still documenting packaging choices for foot-specific or separately packaged terminfo definitions.

How it is used

Users run foot directly or use footclient with the server mode. Configuration is read from XDG-style foot.ini paths, and packagers can tune Meson options for documentation, tests, IME, grapheme clustering, terminfo, systemd units, and utmp backends.

Why package nerds care

Package maintainers care about foot because it sits at the intersection of Wayland, terminal capability databases, optional runtime integrations, and small C dependencies. Its docs explicitly discuss whether to use ncurses' bundled terminfo or package foot's own terminfo, a detail that affects remote shells, tmux, and TERM/TERMINFO behavior.

Timeline

2021: ncurses 2021-07-31 includes a version of foot's terminfo, according to foot's install guide.
2025: foot 1.27.0 adds configurable URL underline styles in the project changelog.
2026: the Codeberg releases page lists a 1.27.0 release dated 2026-05-15.

Related projects

foot's installation guide identifies fcft and tllist as related libraries by the same maintainer. Its README also links terminal features to related protocol ecosystems such as kitty underlines, synchronized updates, and sixel.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for foot. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/foot/foot.ini~/.config/foot/foot.ini$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/foot/foot.ini/etc/xdg/foot/foot.ini

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`foot`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`footclient`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.27.0

manager updated2026-07-16

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:foot
Version	1.27.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Last updated	2026-07-16T12:50:32Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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source trail

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Combined YAML source

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combined/foot.yml

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