termite
CuteXterm
Our great sponsors
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
termite
-
Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
- you can also rectangular select like in vim, and then press either p (includes LF) or which joins the multiline clipboard text into a single line (removing LF's), that payed off a lot for output like `git status` and wanting to operate on parts of the output (files e.g.)
Have a look at the still young website's documentation here: https://contour-terminal.org/input-modes/#supported-text-obj...
for a more complete look of what you can do with the keyboard (normal mode) :)
[1] https://github.com/thestinger/termite/
-
GNOME’s horrid coding practices
Also, regarding VTE, the author of termite (discontinued terminal emulator) expressed similar concerns about the GNOME devs. Apparently, they have little interest in making the library useful to people not working on GNOME apps: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
- Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That’s Not a Good Thing
-
Help me to find a minimal terminal that supports full transparency
Termite is obsolete by Alacritty.
-
Why are kitty and alacritty so popular? Where's the foot love?
I simply do not want to use anything libvte based. And that's what sakura is and termite used to be.
-
Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
History and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME.
1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
-
System76: A Case Study on How Not To Collaborate With Upstream
This post by the Termite developer, with respect to VTE, is quite instructive
- Why is termite not in arch's official repositories?
- Recommended terminal emulator for swaywm?
-
Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
> https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst...
Wow, this confirms a lot of my impressions:
>> In 2012, we submitted a tiny patch exposing the APIs needed for the keyboard text selection, hints mode and other features. Despite support from multiple other projects, the patch was rejected. It's now almost a decade later and no progress has been made. There is no implementation of these kinds of features in VTE and it's unlikely they'll be provided either internally or as flexible APIs. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other projects using VTE as a library. GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use.
This is exactly why sixel-tmux exists as a separate entity!
> Yeah, I read the entire conversation and if sixel support lands in tmux upstream, it would indeed be good news.
I'll keep my fingers crossed, but right now, there seems to be a lot of good will. I will do everything I can.
CuteXterm
- Improving XTerm experience?
-
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app
> Yeah... xterm with a few tweaks (and some pruning) would still be best for me.
Check https://github.com/csdvrx/CuteXterm for my bag of tricks :)
xterm offers the best emulation, period. The developer is reactive and maintain high quality standards. The only real issues for me are the lack of configurable shortcuts, and ligatures. wezterm is a good option if you need these, and don't depend on xterm perfect emulation.
-
Forking Chrome to Render in a Terminal
> Most emulate an xterm, which didn't have support for graphics
Start your xterm with the right flags and it will.
If you want a premade configuration, see https://github.com/csdvrx/CuteXterm
-
Thinkpad X1 Fold review from an old thinkpad user
See my rant on https://github.com/csdvrx/cuteXterm
-
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
> Surely you need AHK because Windows is less configurable
No, because it lets me do remap like having Caps be both Control and Esc - and I do the same with Enter being both Control when used with another key, and Enter alone. My Alt keys are Alt keys when used with another key, or Home/End when used alone.
> How are you using terminals in Windows? Like you want to SSH from a fresh install, what do I do?
Install openssh from the windows settings (check https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...)
I'd recommend the latest Windows terminal from the Microsoft store, or mintty from msys2, but that's just for comfort :)
> I find Linux superior here, but interested to learn why you're the opposite; maybe I'm doing it wrong
I like sixels, so I prefer mintty, but even without sixels, I find the Windows experience better: I want cute fonts with ligatures in my terminal. I want proper support of bold, underline, italic. I want multiple tabs. I want to map key actions to everything - like, I want my terminal to change its color profile and font with just 1 key.
That's very hard on Linux. That's easy on Windows.
https://github.com/csdvrx/cuteXterm#why-did-you-make-cutexte...
-
what windows features that have no equivalent in linux?
If I was feeling playful, I'd point you to https://github.com/csdvrx/cuteXterm and grab some popcorn while you turn red and pretend it doesn't matter and we could have a fun debate.
- CuteXterm- Sensible defaults for xterm in the 21st century
-
Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
Apologies for misgendering you. My opinion that you come off like a windows fangirl was mostly due to the other rant you linked in the sixel-tmux rant: https://github.com/csdvrx/cutexterm#wait-i-thought-people-sa...
Here you mention some other things unrelated to terminals, and I was mostly addressing those. It seems to me you want a specific type of experience on Linux, but you can't get that, so therefore dismiss the merits of Linux. I think a lot of your impressions on Linux come from using an X11 based setup instead of Wayland. Completely different beasts, and I think a lot of your grievances would be solved by the latter.
For me, I cannot go back to Windows, ethical reasons aside: Sway on Wayland is perfect for me, and it's what I want out of my computing experience.
I actually agree with a lot that is written in those rants, particularly the VTE and gnome terminal situation. It's just your comments on windows vs linux came across as very personal imo, so I suppose I have retorted here with also a somewhat personal rant.
Also, I don't think either platform has many good terminal choices. Besides mintty, I don't think there are that many good (platform exclusive) terminal emulators on Windows. And on Linux, Foot is one of the few that meets my criteria, including top tier Sixel support (though Wezterm meets my criteria too if it wasn't so slow, hopefully it gets faster). But, for example, I could never really like mintty if I was forced to use Windows, because it lacks features I want.
What I'm trying to say: different needs, different use cases, different tastes. Sorry that my original rant came off so negatively to you and that I wasn't able to convey this point I was trying to make.
- CuteXterm: a full configuration to have a tabbed Xterm with proper sixel support
What are some alternatives?
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
xserver-SIXEL - A X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals, based on @pelya's Xsdl kdrive server(https://github.com/pelya/xserver-xsdl)
st - build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim
linux-surface - Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
Windows Terminal - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
matplotlib-sixel - A sixel graphics backend for matplotlib
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
mosh-windows-wrappers - Windows native port of Mobile Shell (mosh).