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Non-Windows Software / Enough with the text editors... let's talk Terminal Emulators!
« on: August 06, 2014, 11:55 PM »
Call them Virtual Terminals, Terminal Emulators or Command Windows, anybody who has ever done anything involving configuration or administration that only requires a line or two of shell, knows what I'm talking about. I get by just fine with Xfce4-terminal, others may stick with good ol' Xterm or Rxvt , or go in for fancy stuff like Guake, but I've run into no less than 2 VT's lately:
This one seems to go out of it's way to invoke nostalgia while your wrestling with file permission in /usr/share, but hey... I typed 'CLS' more than once, so mission accomplished.
Cool-Old-Term
This next one aims to be the Swiss Army Knife of terminal emulators. A modern UI bolted on to a solid terminal. I like it (even if I can't compile it... yet).
FinalTerm
This one seems to go out of it's way to invoke nostalgia while your wrestling with file permission in /usr/share, but hey... I typed 'CLS' more than once, so mission accomplished.
Cool-Old-Term
Cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.
This next one aims to be the Swiss Army Knife of terminal emulators. A modern UI bolted on to a solid terminal. I like it (even if I can't compile it... yet).
FinalTerm
Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator.
It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including:
Semantic text menus
Smart command completion
GUI terminal controls