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Topic: Terminator Love Weekend

CrunchBang has shipped with Terminator as its default terminal application since the 8.10.xx releases. It is my opinion that Terminator is a fantastic tool and I would very much like to keep shipping it with CrunchBang.

As you may or may not be aware, Terminator has recently had a complete rewrite and it now has lots of excellent new features. It also has a few bugs, but this is to be expected. I think it would be fantastic if the CrunchBang community could rally around the Terminator project and show it some love this weekend.

If you would like to help out with bug squashing, please download and install the latest version of Terminator. If you are comfortable with using Bazaar, you can find details about how to get the Trunk branch at: https://code.launchpad.net/~gnome-termi … ator/trunk

Alternatively, you can grab some PPA packages from: https://launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/+archive/ppa

If you find any bugs, please report them to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator

Note for Statler users, the PPA packages should install without problems.

If enough of us take part in this, we can help to make the Terminator 1.0 release the best release yet. Thank you to everyone who takes part! smile

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

For anyone who might be interested, I have built a package from Trunk, bzr revision 956. I have not uploaded it to Statler's repository, but if you are interested in testing it, you can grab it from: http://crunchbanglinux.org/misc/termina … 62_all.deb

As and when new revisions appear, I will try and keep the above link/package updated. smile

UPDATE - 02/04/10 16:00: Package and link updated to rev.959.
UPDATE - 02/04/10 17:50: Package and link updated to rev.962.

Last edited by corenominal (2010-04-02 16:50:28)

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

^ excellent smile I've been using the ppa builds without problems but these should be much better.

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Terminator is the only terminal emulator I've ever been completely happy with.
I'm not really as well-versed as most when it comes to Terminator, but I'll give it a shot when I get home later.

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Terminator package updated to rev.959. See http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/62517/#p62517

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Not sure how I feel about the new always-on title bar, but I'm willing to give it a try.

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Tree Bito wrote:

Not sure how I feel about the new always-on title bar, but I'm willing to give it a try.

It can be turned off within the preferences dialog. smile

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corenominal wrote:
Tree Bito wrote:

Not sure how I feel about the new always-on title bar, but I'm willing to give it a try.

It can be turned off within the preferences dialog. smile

Thanks, I missed that!
I'm going to leave it on and see if it grows on me. In this bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+ … mments=all, Chris says the Titlebar is important for grouping behavior. I've never really used that, but maybe I'll try out things I haven't done with the terminal before.

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Nice work on the bug submissions smile

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Terminator package updated to rev.962. See http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/62517/#p62517

Nice work everyone, I believe we have made some real progress today! smile

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Nice work on the bug submissions smile

+1 smile

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Question marked as Solved, and a new Terminator convert. Chris needs a medal for his response times smile
https://answers.launchpad.net/terminato … ion/106267

Well done corenominal for finding python-keybinder!

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corenominal wrote:

For anyone who might be interested, I have built a package from Trunk, bzr revision 956. I have not uploaded it to Statler's repository, but if you are interested in testing it, you can grab it from: http://crunchbanglinux.org/misc/termina … 62_all.deb

As and when new revisions appear, I will try and keep the above link/package updated. smile

UPDATE - 02/04/10 16:00: Package and link updated to rev.959.
UPDATE - 02/04/10 17:50: Package and link updated to rev.962.

I had to install libcanberra-gtk-module to go with the new Terminator. But this maybe a symptom of adding and removing deps while testing the previous version. Just in case anybody gets a similar error message.

All working well now. smile

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

" As of version 0.90, Terminator offers a full GUI preferences editor which automatically saves its  config
   file so you don't need to write a config file by hand."
Gotta love that.

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illumin8 wrote:

" As of version 0.90, Terminator offers a full GUI preferences editor which automatically saves its  config
   file so you don't need to write a config file by hand."
Gotta love that.

+1 big_smile

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the title-bar, even with the preferences set to off displays a line of the title-bar. will check this out later

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the title-bar, even with the preferences set to off displays a line of the title-bar. will check this out later

Yes, I noticed that to. In the end I felt the title bar looked better.

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Terminator is my favorite too wink

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What would have to be it's best feature and a valid reason for keeping it in #!, "Window Splitting".  Openbox now transcends into tiling window management with that feature, giving it that last little bell and whistle needed.  Cheers homie.

I'm going to go ahead and compile the latest version for corbonix, and will definitely be keeping it as a standard app.

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jnb wrote:

the title-bar, even with the preferences set to off displays a line of the title-bar. will check this out later

It looks like when the Title bar is set to hidden, it leaves that 1px line for enabling it with left click. Then left clicking on the main text entry area hides it again.
But the groups sub-menu icon still shows a little bit in hidden mode which is a little irritating.

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Regarding the discussion about the non-hidden hidden title bar, please see: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/552539 - I would suggest that anyone who wishes to comment about this, does so in the existing bug report. smile

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What would have to be it's best feature and a valid reason for keeping it in #!, "Window Splitting".  Openbox now transcends into tiling window management with that feature, giving it that last little bell and whistle needed.  Cheers homie.

Hey p0rksh3d smile The advantages of using Terminator were obvious to me almost as soon as I started using it. I know some people debate that there are better ways to achieve the window splitting, but for me, Terminator fits into my workflow. Anyhow, I posted a short blog post about Terminator when I started using it, see: http://crunchbang.org/archives/2008/07/ … -emulator/ smile

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Re: Terminator Love Weekend

Running bzr revision 962 (now with python-keybinder installed, too) – ta for that! Noticed some strange behaviour: if I open another tab, then split the new tab vertically, and then try to close the active tab by clicking on the "X" button, nothing happens, except that I get an error message saying 

TabLabel::closetab: <TabLabel object at 0xb5711aa4 (terminatorlib+notebook+TabLabel at 0x9664228)> not in <Notebook object at 0xb570f7ac (GtkNotebook at 0x967c8b8)>. Bailing.

See the screenshot:
http://omploader.org/tNDFsMQ
If I right-click upon the Terminator window and choose "Close", the tab is closed as it should, with no output in the XFCE terminal.

I am not sure if this is a bug or expected behaviour, because I can close the non-active tab by clicking the "X" button in the tab's top right corner (but that doesn't work with the active tab that has the red title bar).

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I noticed the final 0.92 release is now available big_smile

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