sakura(1)

Usage

sakura [options ...]

Overview

sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE. It's a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don't need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a decent terminal emulator.

Options

-?, --help: Show help options.

--help-all: Show all help options

--help-gtk: Show GTK+ Options

Options

-v, --version: Print version number

-f, --font: Select initial terminal font

-n, --ntabs: Select initial number of tabs

-x, --execute: Execute command

-e, --xterm-execute: Execute command (compatible with xterm's -e option)

-l, --login: Login shell

-c, --columns: Set columns number

-r, --rows: Set rows number

-h, --hold: Hold window after execute command

-d, --working-directory: Set working directory

-m, --maximize: Maximize window

-s, --fullscreen: Fullscreen mode

--display=DISPLAY: X display to use

--config-file=FILENAME: Use alternate configuration file. Path is relative to the sakura config dir. (Example: ~/.config/sakura/FILENAME).

Options

--class=CLASS: Program class as used by the window manager

--name=NAME: Program name as used by the window manager

--screen=SCREEN: X screen to use

--sync: Make X calls synchronous

--gtk-module=MODULES: Load additional GTK+ modules

--g-fatal-warnings: Make all warnings fatal

Configuration

show_tab_bar=[always | multiple | never]: This list of options is currently incomplete.

Keybindings support

sakura supports keyboard bindings. They are configurable by setting the following properties in your sakura config file (~/.config/sakura/sakura.conf).

Accelerators

Accelerators can be set to any mask value from the GdkModifierType in gdktypes.h; see:

http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/html/gdk/gdk.enum.modifiertype.html

Mask values can be combined by ORing them.

For example, to set the delete tab accelerator to Ctrl + Shift:

del_tab_accelerator=5

because GDK_SHIFT_MASK has a value of 1 (1 << 0), and GDK_CONTROL_MASK has a value of 4 (1 << 2); ORing them together, you get 5.

I realise that this configuration is not so friendly to non-programmers, but it is a start. :)

Keys

For example, to set the add tab key to 'T':

add_tab_key=T

Before sakura used keycodes instead of strings. They're still valid.

Defaults

    Ctrl + Shift + T                 -> New tab
    Ctrl + Shift + W                 -> Close current tab
    Ctrl + Shift + C                 -> Copy selected text
    Ctrl + Shift + V                 -> Paste selected text
    Ctrl + Left cursor               -> Previous tab
    Ctrl + Right cursor              -> Next tab
    Ctrl + [1-9]                     -> Switch to tab N (1-9)
    Ctrl + Shift + S                 -> Toggle scrollbar
    Ctrl + Shift + Mouse left button -> Open link
    F11                              -> Fullscreen
    Shift + PageUp                   -> Move up through scrollback by page
    Shift + PageDown                 -> Move down through scrollback by page
    Ctrl + Shift + Up                -> Move up through scrollback by line
    Ctrl + Shift + Down              -> Move down through scrollback by line

You can also increase and decrease the font size in the GTK+ standard way (not configurable):

    Ctrl + '+'                       -> Increase font size
    Ctrl + '-'                       -> Decrease font size

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 8 times.

6.0
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Arch

--config-file since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --fullscreen since Debian 9 (Stretch); --maximize since Debian 9 (Stretch); --working-directory since Debian 9 (Stretch); --xterm-execute since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -d since Debian 9 (Stretch); -m since Debian 9 (Stretch); -s since Debian 9 (Stretch); -x since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

--title until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -t until Debian 11 (Bullseye).