SAKURA(1)

🌸 SAKURA(1) 🌸

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because i'm about to tell you about the cutest little terminal emulator in the whole entire game 💖 this is the manual page for sakura, section 1 of the manual, and honestly? she ate.

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✨ NAME ✨

sakura — a simple but powerful libvte-based terminal emulator. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

sakura [options...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, sakura is a terminal emulator built on GTK+ and VTE. that's the whole vibe. she's a terminal emulator with very few dependencies, which lowkey means you do NOT need a whole entire GNOME desktop installed just to have a decent terminal emulator. iconic behavior, honestly. main character energy fr fr 👑

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💅 HELP OPTIONS 💅

• -?, --help — show help options. the classic "help me pls" move 🫶
• --help-all — show all help options. the deluxe version.
• --help-gtk — show the GTK+ options specifically. bestie-ception.

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🔥 APPLICATION OPTIONS 🔥

• -v, --version — print the version number. how old is she? find out.
• -f, --font — select the initial terminal font. pick her outfit 💅
• -n, --ntabs — select the initial number of tabs. how many tabs you opening at launch, be honest.
• -x, --execute — execute a command.
• -e, --xterm-execute — execute a command (compatible with xterm's -e option). for the xterm girlies.
• -l, --login — login shell.
• -c, --columns — set the columns number.
• -r, --rows — set the rows number.
• -h, --hold — hold the window after executing the command. yes, -h is hold here, not help — don't get got 😭 (help is -?, remember?)
• -d, --working-directory — set the working directory.
• -m, --maximize — maximize the window.
• -s, --fullscreen — fullscreen mode. she takes up the WHOLE screen.
• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use.
• --config-file=FILENAME — use an alternate configuration file. the path is relative to the sakura config dir. (Example: ~/.config/sakura/FILENAME).

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🌈 GTK+ 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. spicy. 🌶️

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🍓 CONFIGURATION 🍓

• show_tab_bar=[always | multiple | never] — controls the tab bar, obvs.

heads up: this list of options is currently incomplete. so if you're looking for more, this ain't it (yet). 🙈

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🧚 KEYBINDINGS SUPPORT 🧚

sakura supports keyboard bindings!! and they're configurable — you set the following properties in your sakura config file, which lives at ~/.config/sakura/sakura.conf. yes, you can customize her. she's flexible like that 💜

⭐ 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 together. ✨

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); OR them together and you get 5. math girlies rise 🧮

ngl, this configuration is not exactly friendly to non-programmers, but it's a start. :) (that's basically a direct quote, bestie, i'm not gonna lie to you.)

🎀 KEYS 🎀

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

add_tab_key=T

fun fact: back in the day sakura used keycodes instead of strings — and those keycodes are still valid. retro queen 👑

💖 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

and also — you can increase and decrease the font size the GTK+ standard way (this one is not configurable, periodt):

• Ctrl + '+' → Increase font size
• Ctrl + '-' → Decrease font size

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😭 BUGS 😭

sakura is hosted on Launchpad. bugs can be filed at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/sakura

found a bug? don't gatekeep, file it 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

sakura was written by David Gómez <david@pleyades.net>.

this manual page was written by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@gmail.com>.

both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. slay. legal girlies stay winning 🫶

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially educated ✨ this was sakura version 3.8.9, dated 2026-02-09 — go forth and terminal, ily, bye 💖🌸🦋