Terminology – a new terminal emulator
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Terminology – a new terminal emulator
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Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator
#2That's a really bad screencast, since the fonts are barely readable. Still, cool features. Will try it out to see if they are useful or annoying.
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#3I'm amazed Enlightenment still exists.
Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator
#4Terminology still has problems compared to SecureCRT or rxvt-unicode. I have been trying it on and off, as recently as this morning from the latest builds on ppa hannes-janetzek/svn-enlightenment, and if you fill the screen with text, it frequently does the wrong thing with the scrollback buffer, but as far as advanced terminals go, there's nothing for competition with Terminology.
For the neatest demo of what you might want to do, download the development version of Elive -- there is a demonstration showing how the terminal can have a transparent video (or is it rendered EFL/OpenGL?) as a background.
The terminal shows promise, and I don't think I've filed a bug that hasn't been corrected and closed, so if anyone with more expertise can replicate problems as I've described, maybe you should do that.
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#5Installation is a bit of a pain, at least on OS X. It complains of a bunch of packages missing. Consider having it available through macports.
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#6I'm amazed Enlightenment still exists.
e17 was released 3 months ago, after 12 years in development. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955861
Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator
#7That's a really bad screencast, since the fonts are barely readable. Still, cool features. Will try it out to see if they are useful or annoying.
Can't use XFT fonts. Doesn't set 256 colors properly. The blinking cursor is retarded and seemingly cannot be disabled. Those are kind of dealbreakers for me.
On the plus side, it feels really snappy. Impressive speed indeed.
Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator
#8That's a really bad screencast, since the fonts are barely readable. Still, cool features. Will try it out to see if they are useful or annoying.
Can't use XFT fonts. Doesn't set 256 colors properly. The blinking cursor is retarded and seemingly cannot be disabled. Those are kind of dealbreakers for me. On the plus side, it feels really snappy. Impressive speed indeed.
Right click -> Options -> Behaviour -> Cursor blinking -> uncheck.
Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator
#9For me the point in using a terminal emulator over the GUI shell is that I don't have to move my right hand from the keyboard on to the mouse. This (Terminology) seems cool but all the extra features have to be accessible with obvious and non-obscure keyboard shortcuts. That would make it a very considerable choice as a main operating shell
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#10Transparency and background images are great for making screenshots to show off your customized desktop. For actual daily use, they're absurd.