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~~Title: About Terminology~~
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==== Terminology ====
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[[download|Download Terminology Here]]
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Terminology is a terminal emulator for Linux/BSD/UNIX etc. systems
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that uses EFL and has a whole bunch of bells and whistles. Use it as
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your regular vt100 terminal emulator along with all the usual things
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like 256 color support (we attempt to emulate Xterm as closely as
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possible in most respects).
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Of course since it uses EFL, it works in X11, under a Wayland
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compositor and even directly in the framebuffer on Linux. Replace your
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boring text-mode VT with a graphical one that requires no display
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system.
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We have config panels (just press right mouse or hold left mouse down for
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about a second) and you can even customize the colors to your own
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liking or just use the colors specified with your theme.
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Run all your regular terminal apps, like top, htop, ls, emacs, vim, mc
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etc. as you always have, and enjoy one of the fastest terminal
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emulators around in terms of it handling I/O. No waiting for scrolling
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any longer than the application generating the output spends.
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Terminology will keep scrollback in RAM, not on any file on disk to
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keep things a bit more secure. In addition scrollback is compressed on
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the fly to save space. It can even use OpenGL to render if you have
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configured the acceleration preferences for EFL (Elementary).
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You will have a nice and unmistakable visual bell to let you know
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something is wrong, as well as sound to get your attention (can be
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turned off by muting alerts).
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Terminology understands full file paths, URL links and email addresses
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in the terminal and will underline them on mouse-over so you can click
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and get more information such as gravatar information for that e-mail
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address, or to download the file from a url (and if it's a video or
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animated gif, play it, otherwise just display it).
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Don't be mystified as to what is going on while it downloads, as
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you'll get a nice progress bar to let you know how things are going,
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And when the file is ready (instantly if local), it will display the
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file for you in a nice popup inside the Terminal. It saves bringing up
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another GUI application if all you wanted was to quickly see what was
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going on in that file or URL. Of course Terminology can be configured
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to bring up files with external application helpers.
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Never again be stuck not being able to see cats do stupid things in
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animated gifs when you don't have your web browser available. Your
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terminal can give you all the fluffy fun you wanted by itself. You can
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even use tycat (a special cat tool that provides metadata for
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Terminology via escape sequences), to literally "cat" content inline
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in your terminal. it even remembers it in scrollback. Even if it is a
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video file. Scroll back and the video will play. With sound as well
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(and controls to seek, pause etc.).
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Your image files will come up with all their glorious alpha channel
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goodness. Even SVG files will scale properly, PDFs and PS files will
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be visible and scalable. If you have libreoffice installed, you can
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even cat PPT, ODP, DOC and even XLS files if you want.
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But don't just click on links or use "typop" to pop up files, and tycat
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them, but even set them as backgrounds too. "tybg" can set a
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background to any file you like, from a simple JPEG or PNG file
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through to SVG, even MP4 videos, animated gifs, even PPT files can
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become your terminal background if you like. Love that presentation on
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rising finacialization of market innovation? Never live without it
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again! Set it as a background and enjoy it all day, every day. In your
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terminal. Want to watch a video of butts drifting by in your terminal
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while using "tyls" to list files... along with their thumbnails? never
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fear! Terminology will come to your rescue. Have cats trying to jump
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and fail miserably by plummeting to the floor? You can have it all NOW!
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{{:terminology-bg-video.png?&200 |}}
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Also need translucency, so you can see what is below your terminal?
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Fret not! Terminology has this bell and whistle also nicely stashed in
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its chest of visual features. Feel free to set it to 0% to make your
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display totally unusable as no background is then provided and you can
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see everything behind clearly.
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Is this not enough? Never mind then, We also have Tabs. Good
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old-fashioned Tabs the way most people like them. Lined up along the
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top of your terminal showing the current title for that Tab. And fear
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not - your background videos will still play across all the Tabs you
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have. Yes - the ones in hidden Tabs will be "paused" (actually entirely
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evicted from memory until you come around to open up that Tab again).
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But do you want something a bit funkier with Tabs? Then hit the 4
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boxes at the top-right of a terminal, or hit CTRL+SHIFT+Home and go
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into "Tab switcher" mode. A grid of terminals much like Esposé will
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do will appear. You can navigate with the mouse or keyboard and
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select what you want. All the miniatures will be live, showing
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current content scrolling by or updating, and if they have a
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background - even a video, it will be playing. Live.
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If Tabs are not enough, Terminology also offers Splits. This allows
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you to split the terminal into panes with a left/right half, or
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top/bottom half. Splits can nest, so you can split a Split again as
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many times as you like. They are resizable, and each Split can hold as
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many Tabs as you like. So slice and dice your terminal any way you like.
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But don't worry, all your Splits will keep playing your videos,
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displaying your wallpapers and updating their content as you might
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expect them to.
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And of course we have a large set of configuration options as well.
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Want something to behave a bit differently, or change look? Switch
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theme? Select background visually? Change font and sizing? Just right
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click or hold left mouse down and bring up the settings panels.
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Customize to your liking. Terminology will store your changes for
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future annoyance (unless "Temporary" is selected).
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Of course if a bunch of still images is not enough for you, Below we
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have a video showing off more of what Terminology can do for you. It
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showcases most of the features, but just know that features keep being
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added all the time, and this may not represent everything you can do
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today.
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