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Terminal and Terminal Font detetion

Riviox edited this page May 14, 2024 · 1 revision

Terminal Detection

Mac OS X

Terminal detection works by checking the value of $TERM_PROGRAM.

All other OS

Terminal detection works by recursively checking parent processes until the result isn't $SHELL, *sh, screen or tmux.

This method of detection doesn't work with tmux as the parent processes aren't the current shell or the terminal emulator.

Font Detection

Font detection works by parsing the terminal emulator's config file.

Funtion Support

Terminal Emulator Config Type Font Detection
Alacritty Global Yes
Deepin-terminal Global Yes
Gnome-terminal Profile No
iTerm2 Profile No
HyperTerm Global Yes
Konsole Profile Yes
Mintty Global Yes
Pantheon Global Yes
Sakura Global Yes
st None No
Terminal.app N/A Yes
Terminator Profile No
Terminology Profile No
Termite Global Yes
URxvt N/A Yes
Xfce4-terminal Global Yes
Xterm N/A Yes

Profile: The font info is split based on profiles. N/A: A command is used (xrdb / osascript) to get the font.