Terminology 0.3 available [LWN.net]

From:		Michael Blumenkrantz <michael.blumenkrantz-AT-gmail.com>
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Subject:		[Enlightenment-announce] Fw: [E-devel] Terminology 0.3
Date:		Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:59:11 +0000
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From: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster@rasterman.com>

Terminology is a terminal emulator that uses modern EFL components to build its
UI and core. It is written from scratch and does not use any components outside
of EFL and libc, so it should be very portable and easy to build. For more
information, please see the Terminology Page.

Version 0.3 adds many things as well as UI and code cleanups. Tabs have been
added (key driven for now), terminals can be split, terminology can run
multiple terminal window from a single process automatically, inline images,
videos and other media within the terminal and its history (along with tools to
do this - tyls, tycat, typop, tyq, tybg, tyalpha). Some of these tools affect
terminology configuration via escapes.

Of course it is not perfect, but it has now come a long way and is becoming
rather respectable.

http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/terminology-0....
http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/terminology-0....

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Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Mar 28, 2013 20:11 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

While this is very cool, and it seems likely it'll become my preferred terminal emulator... the feature the introductory video goes into most depth about seems totally useless. Who would *want* a full-motion video as their backdrop? It'd just make the terminal emulator entirely unreadable! (Perhaps a very quiet patterned one, but it seems more sensible to procedurally generate that.)

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 2, 2013 19:39 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

You could use it as a video player on a TTY rather than using MPlayer (which IME prevents TTY switches and covers the terminal in the current TTY).

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 2, 2013 20:10 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

mplayer doesn't prevent tty switches (heck it doesn't even stop the screensaver from kicking in :( ). As for covering the whole screen... that's usually what you want from a video player. Or at least it's what I want. Nothing but the image.

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 2, 2013 20:23 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It didn't go fullscreen for me (it just took up 60% of the screen). I also couldn't get it to quit (I was running tmux started in a different TTY when I launched mplayer; maybe that has something to do with it?).

I want full screen as well, but I'd like to be able to pause it and go back to the terminal underneath it. Does SIGSTOP do that?

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 3, 2013 23:06 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, you can SIGSTOP it, but since you can go fullscreen and back by hitting 'f' one generally goes windowed again beforehand.

Going fullscreen takes window manager cooperation: perhaps your wm wasn't cooperating that day?

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 3, 2013 23:22 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Maybe my cases are getting confused here:

MPlayer on TTY2 under tmux started on TTY1 (untested since this happened since recovery required a reboot):

- shows video at 1:1; not fullscreened;
- ignores keyboard;
- cannot switch to a different TTY.

MPlayer on X11:

- works as expected.

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 4, 2013 0:16 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

what was your -ao option (in the tty case)?

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 4, 2013 0:29 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I dont remember setting it explicitly, so it was probably using pulseaudio.

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 4, 2013 0:57 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

And your -vo ?

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 4, 2013 1:15 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It was probably fbdev or fbdev2 (or I let mplayer choose the default). Maybe I'll try this again this weekend.

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 8, 2013 8:13 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh, yeah, right, I had it completely backwards. I have no idea what mplayer does in fbdev: I basically never use fbdev to do more than 'startx' unless something is wrong with X, and then I only use it to fix it. :)

Terminology 0.3 available

Posted Apr 8, 2013 16:21 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I use the TTY on long trips where battery saving is key. Not running X helps, though I imagine with non-KMS drivers, the driver's power management probably helps more than the extra load hurts.