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Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by jszmajda »

yebyen wrote: post #4

Terminology 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 mi…

FWIW, the ppa is hannes-janetzek/enlightment-svn, and you can try it out in Ubuntu with:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightment-svn

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install terminology

great effort coming along. I'm sticking with terminator for now but will keep my eye on terminolog.

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by sliverstorm »

thiderman wrote: post #7
thiderman wrote: post #2

That'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.

I want so badly for the XFT thing to not be a problem. All my favorite terms benefit from using the old font system instead, but there just aren't any good fonts I can use.

I do like some of the classic monospace fonts like 6x13, but my monitor resolution is just too high for that.

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by micampe »

yati wrote: post #29

This 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!

On the other hand, I couldn’t help thinking, while watching the video, why should my terminal load web pages and images?

I’ve done the same thing both in Linux and now on OS X, by using various 'open' commands or – on OS X – 'qlmanage -p', which opens a QuickLook window for a file, just like the video is showing, but it’s system wide and not in my terminal.

And this is not a “OS X had this before” post, it’s just that the feature seems more fit to an external program to me. I’m trying not to type unix philosophy here, but it’s going right against it.

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by sambeau »

gcb0 wrote: post #26
dmm wrote: post #14

Earlier 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.

It's backed by Samsung.

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by Semaphor »

rachelbythebay wrote: post #27
terhechte wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While I agree with you, that's not what he said in his comment :)

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by zokier »

micampe wrote: post #34
yati wrote: post #29

This 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!

On the other hand, I couldn’t help thinking, while watching the video, why should my terminal load web pages and images? I’ve done the same thing both in Linux and now on OS X, by using various 'open' commands or – on OS X – 'qlmanage -p', which opens a QuickLook window for a file, just like the video is showing, but it’s system wide and not in my terminal. And this is not a “OS X had this before” post, it’s just tha…

Thumbnails for filelists seems somewhat useful. And another use for inline image display is that you could be modifying the image and then scroll back and forth to see the results and intermediates.

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by buster »

I really, really like terminology (as i like Enlightenment), but i am waiting until it supports Tabs, the only thing missing for me.

As to all the "uhh, i don't want additional stuff" comments: There is no reason a terminal emulator can look nice as long as it doesn't distract. And so far, terminology does a really good job! And good, does it look sexy.. ;)

Keep up the development of terminology, one user here for sure! ;)

Re: Terminology – a new terminal emulator

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Post by [deleted] »

js-coder wrote: post #25
th0114nd wrote: post #5

Installation 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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