One of these seems to pop up every few months, which is great, terminals are old crusty awful things, but it seems like they always die out in development before they can run existing things like Vim which makes them fun POC's and not much else :/
I would really love it if one of these web-based terminals managed to stick around. Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing. The trouble with building on web technologies seems to be that the overhead is just too high (eg. Atom) considering how many terminals the average developer has open at a time. I guess at least since it's based on Electron, it might have more longevity than something built…
Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
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Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#12One of these seems to pop up every few months, which is great, terminals are old crusty awful things, but it seems like they always die out in development before they can run existing things like Vim which makes them fun POC's and not much else :/
I would really love it if one of these web-based terminals managed to stick around. Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing. The trouble with building on web technologies seems to be that the overhead is just too high (eg. Atom) considering how many terminals the average developer has open at a time. I guess at least since it's based on Electron, it might have more longevity than something built…
Several hundred MB RAM usage for a single Terminal window are just not acceptable.
Somehow many devs today write their software under the assumption that a user with 2GB RAM or 4GB RAM will at all times only run one single piece of software.
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#13Screenshot looks awesome! I get this error on mac os Yosemite, I made a github issue here: https://github.com/shockone/black-screen/issues/21 black-screen$ gulp [17:35:09] Using gulpfile ~/black-screen/gulpfile.js [17:35:09] Starting 'default'... [17:35:09] Starting 'watch'... [17:35:09] Starting 'clean'... [17:35:09] Finished 'default' after 359 ms [17:35:09] Finished 'clean' after 58 ms [17:35:09] Starting 'typescr…
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#14Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#15One of these seems to pop up every few months, which is great, terminals are old crusty awful things, but it seems like they always die out in development before they can run existing things like Vim which makes them fun POC's and not much else :/
I would really love it if one of these web-based terminals managed to stick around. Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing. The trouble with building on web technologies seems to be that the overhead is just too high (eg. Atom) considering how many terminals the average developer has open at a time. I guess at least since it's based on Electron, it might have more longevity than something built…
What are the advantages of that over using a dedicated image viewer program?
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would really love it if one of these web-based terminals managed to stick around. Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing. The trouble with building on web technologies seems to be that the overhead is just too high (eg. Atom) considering how many terminals the average developer has open at a time. I guess at least since it's based on Electron, it might have more longevity than something built…
Feh is usually good enough for me. There's always catimg too if you really really want it in the terminal and don't care that it'll look terrible.
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would really love it if one of these web-based terminals managed to stick around. Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing. The trouble with building on web technologies seems to be that the overhead is just too high (eg. Atom) considering how many terminals the average developer has open at a time. I guess at least since it's based on Electron, it might have more longevity than something built…
Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing What are the advantages of that over using a dedicated image viewer program?
"Yep that looks like it's right"
git add tmp.png
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One of these seems to pop up every few months Do you --or anyone reading this-- have a list of these? I would love to check them all out actually (not that I don't get your point).
https://github.com/unconed/TermKit https://github.com/breuleux/terminus https://github.com/substack/exterminate
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just being able to view images in a terminal would be amazing What are the advantages of that over using a dedicated image viewer program?
cat tmp.png "Yep that looks like it's right" git add tmp.png
Re: Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron
#20Screenshot looks awesome! I get this error on mac os Yosemite, I made a github issue here: https://github.com/shockone/black-screen/issues/21 black-screen$ gulp [17:35:09] Using gulpfile ~/black-screen/gulpfile.js [17:35:09] Starting 'default'... [17:35:09] Starting 'watch'... [17:35:09] Starting 'clean'... [17:35:09] Finished 'default' after 359 ms [17:35:09] Finished 'clean' after 58 ms [17:35:09] Starting 'typescr…