termite VS nautilus-open-any-terminal

- 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/

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

Termite is obsolete by Alacritty.

I simply do not want to use anything libvte based. And that's what sakura is and termite used to be.

History and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME.

1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite

This post by the Termite developer, with respect to VTE, is quite instructive

> 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.

This doesn't apply to the "Open in terminal" menu item in nautilus, which is provided by gnome-terminal-nautilus. For that, you can use nautilus-open-any-terminal, unless you're switching to GNOME Console, which should work automatically.

nautilus open any terminal (Open current folder in alacritty and not the default terminal)

"Open in Terminal" in nautilus is provided by an extension (gnome-terminal-nautilus). You could replace it with https://github.com/Stunkymonkey/nautilus-open-any-terminal

I tried searching for it. nautilus-open-any-terminal seems promising. I haven't tried it though

Did you install nautilus-open-any-terminal? That could be the second one.

I don't like gnome-terminal, but I like nautilus and I don't feel like installing nautilus-open-any-terminal right now. Is this easy to fix gnome-terminal?

Try this https://github.com/Stunkymonkey/nautilus-open-any-terminal