Silly on any Linux or on OS X. The available alternatives are too good, and not such a daft size. But it's a real contender on Windows where terminal apps are dire (if improving fast).
> Google Analytics?
There's a setting for it. On or off - user's choice.
On reflection I do agree on the ethics of it - if the authors have a defensible reason for using it, they should make full disclosure on first run. I've submitted a github issue to that effect.
The pragmatics are still in favour of it for me - I haven't found another Windows terminal that does everything I want as effectively. Of course I switched off the analytics (scanning settings is always the first thing I do on installing anything). I do tend to try new terminals I come across because electron does seem daft for a terminal, but for now Terminus really does a fine job.
Putting Google Analytics into a desktop application is ridiculous and immediately disqualifies the project for me. Event it it were opt-in rather than opt-out.
a user who has to flick a thousand switch a day in multiple apps and sites to have things the way he wants probably as given up and doesn't have the things the way he wants.
Possibly true - I compiled it and it's a bit rough for daily use as yet. It will be a long time (if ever) before it will compare with iTerm2 or Terminator.
Just tried this on 2K monitor. How exactly is this "A terminal for a more modern age" when the font is not readable with size 11 (and it is easily readable in iTerm2 with the same settings) ?
Since when did my terminal need Google Analytics? Also buggy. Was installed for about 5 minutes before I "noped" the hell out of this one... can we all agree to not use Electron for an app unless it's a super "web-y" one like Slack or Spotify? kthx.
If anyone has an iterm2 replacement for Linux I'm all ears:
* Guake-style dropdown support
* Tabs (on the bottom)
* Splits w/o screen for scrollback
I can't believe I have to use three separate terminal applications on Linux in 2019 for modern features...
Alacritty + Tmux (+ WM/DE keybinds) does the job for me. Good performance, cross-platform, able to edit the config file on the fly. But it doesn't have tabs. That's what I use Tmux (with plugins) for. You can make Alacritty fullscreen with a keybind. I also had to change some default configuration settings.
Yep - already use it and love it. The problem with Terminator is opening it on same monitor that my cursor is on with a keyboard shortcut key.
Guake is (I think) the only one that gets that right without custom scripting. Been researching alternative solutions all morning and I think I'm going to have to hammer something custom out in bash with xdotool, xrandr, PID lookups, etc.
looks down the rabbit hole - hold my beer, I'm goin' in.
You're spot on that it handles some obscure stuff; I recently had a need for ZMODEM over telnet+SSL, and ZOC was the only modern thing I could find that did that.
I used to use Hyper (electron), but I have Alacritty looking exactly like Hyper now. Just as pretty, much lighter and faster. Starts up in a fraction of the time. Keeps up with fast scrolling text. Cross platform too!
For every new terminal I test if they can handle tricky unicode or locking escape sequences.
I tried right now the kitty terminal available on Debian Buster, and echo -e "\033(0" still requires to reset the terminal (don't paste the above in your working session if you can't type reset without visual feedback).
P.S. still using Gnome-terminal that it doesn't handle locking escapes... ^__^;
I think I've pulled that example from the Mosh shell,
if you look at https://mosh.org/#techinfo you'll find other escape sequences that are still problematic for terminal emulators.
It requires a full web browser to run (built on electron, complete with google analytics!), so I guess including a ton of unneeded/spyware crap makes things 'modern' now.
Nice to see a terminal addressing this issue. Even worse is when the output is super long and has no newlines. That can freeze up my whole desktop at work for minutes.
Perhaps happens when the code assumes well-behaved output that has reasonably long lines. It has to collect the lines to allow for sensible reflow behaviour when resizing the window.
I use iTerm (unfortunately only available for macOS) [1]
There’s a theme that makes it look compact (nicer?) [2]
iTerm is native, supports plugins (Python scripting API), is CPU/RAM friendly, with milliseconds input (very important for touch typing), it’s open source (GPL v2) [3][4], the author is a proficient programmer which I hope to sponsor via GitHub Sponsors program soon [5] although you can already sponsor him via Patreon [6], offers smooth split panes, hotkey, buffer search, intelligent autocomplete, instant replay, an exaggerated amount of extra options available from the application settings, additional shell integrations, inline images, password manager, annotations, and the list of features continues with the beta builds.
Having spent several years using Linux (xterm [7], gnome-terminal [8], guake [9], terminator [10], among others), then moving on to macOS (Terminal.app [11] then iTerm.app), and with the recent news in the Windows world [12], I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser, when there’s a good list of alternatives using native libraries and UI, with much more performance, and better features.
> I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser,
It's honestly been the least problematic option I've found on Windows. Everything else I've tried has had some issue somewhere, or some oddness with tmux. But I can't see why you'd bother with it on Linux or a OS X, both of which have great options.
> with the recent news in the Windows world
Cause for optimism, but Windows Terminal isn't really ready yet.
I hate that I can't use iTerm2 on linux and I think it's quite ironic that the best terminal emulator is not made for linux and on top of that also free (instead of many other OSX apps).
Hope some day we'll get it there - maybe with the github sponsoring option he'll get enough to implement it for linux? Who knows.
Google Analytics? Thanks, I'll pass on this one!