Still no truetype fonts huh? Looks like a more flashy Eterm.
The entire rendering engine behind terminology supports TrueType. See http://i.imgur.com/8Xga6K4.jpg
Terminology – a new terminal emulator
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#22i'd give all that away to instead have tab completing based on man page parameters descriptions or something.
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#23Reminds me of TermKit. http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
Sadly, TermKit is pretty much in hibernation due to too much criticism: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/137kd9/18_month...
That's a shame; it was the most interesting experiment yet in a modern take on the command-line terminal.
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#24That'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.
as someone who uses several (SEVERAL) xterms on the same screen and focus-follow-mouse, my best bet to see where my words will go when i type is to notice which screen has the blinking green cursor instead of the static white one.
that one would help a lot.
(i used to have a very visible window manager active border and shadows, and also lower the opacity of the non-focused ones... but gnome 3 designers in all their wisdom decided i didn't need all that)
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#25Installation 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.
How did you install it? I'm on OS X, too, and make throws this error: "make: * No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.".
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#27Reminds me of TermKit. http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
Sadly, TermKit is pretty much in hibernation due to too much criticism: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/137kd9/18_month...
If everyone listened to the nastiest comments on reddit, nothing would ever happen. For anything you can imagine, there is some group who will delight in shooting it down.
I say this as someone who reads reddit quite a bit.
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#28I used to care a lot about tabs and pane splitting in the terminal emulator. Then I discovered terminal multiplexers: screen, then tmux. Now I don't want those features in the terminal emulator anymore, as they overlap and even conflict with the terminal multiplexer.
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#29This is one thing I myself was considering writing, as there is no reason why today's terminal emulators, which I spend most of my time on my machine, shouldn't be able to also display media. This will team up with ranger very nicely for the ultimate terminal-foo!
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's one of the best compositing desktops IMO. It renders fast, even without hardware acceleration.
But his point still stands. And it's easy to see why. It's not 'backed' by any distro where it's the default.