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foot

The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

foot is a terminal emulator, available on Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of foot is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Fast Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory Wayland native DE agnostic Server/daemon mode User configurable font fallback On-the-fly font resize On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment Scrollback search Keyboard driven URL detection Color emoji support IME (via text-input-v3) Multi-seat True Color (24bpp) Styled and colored underlines Synchronized Updates support Sixel image support

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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