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Cool-Retro-Term
Description
Cool-Retro-Term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.
It uses the QML port of qtermwidget (Konsole) developed by me: https://github.com/Swordfish90/qmltermwidget.
This terminal emulator works on Linux and OSX and requires Qt 5.2 or higher.
Contents
Screenshots
Install Cool-Retro-Term
Arch
Install this package directly via the AUR:
yaourt -S aur/cool-retro-term-git
or install the precompiled package:
pacman -S cool-retro-term
Fedora and openSUSE
Grab the package from Open Build Service.
Gentoo
Gentoo users can now install the first release "1.0" from a 3rd-party repository preferably via layman:
USE="subversion git" emerge app-portage/layman
wget https://www.gerczei.eu/files/gerczei.xml -O /etc/layman/overlays/gerczei.xml
layman -f -a qt -a gerczei # those who've added the repo already should sync instead via 'layman -s gerczei'
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~*" emerge =x11-terms/cool-retro-term-1.0.0-r1::gerczei
The live ebuild (version 9999-r1) tracking the bleeding-edge WIP codebase also remains available.
A word of warning: USE flags and keywords are to be added to portage's
configuration files and every emerge operation should be executed with -p
(short option for --pretend) appended to the command line first as per best
practice!
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) through 15.10 (Wily)
Use this PPA
OSX
Get the latest dmg from the release page: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases
Build from source on Linux
Install dependencies first
Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-controls-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qtdeclarative5-dialogs-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
Ubuntu 16.10
sudo apt-get install build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qml-module-qtquick-controls qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
Debian Jessie
sudo apt-get install build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qtquick-localstorage qml-module-qtquick-window2
Fedora
sudo yum -y install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtdeclarative qt5-qtdeclarative-devel qt5-qtgraphicaleffects qt5-qtquickcontrols redhat-rpm-config
or:
sudo dnf -y install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtdeclarative qt5-qtdeclarative-devel qt5-qtgraphicaleffects qt5-qtquickcontrols redhat-rpm-config
Arch
sudo pacman -S qt5-base qt5-declarative qt5-quickcontrols qt5-graphicaleffects
openSUSE
Add repository with latest Qt 5 (this is only needed on openSUSE 13.1, Factory already has it):
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_13.1/ KDE:Qt5
Install dependencies:
sudo zypper install libqt5-qtbase-devel libqt5-qtdeclarative-devel libqt5-qtquickcontrols libqt5-qtgraphicaleffects
Anyone else
Install Qt directly from http://qt-project.org/downloads, then add it to your
path (replace _/opt/Qt5.3.1/5.3/gcc_64/bin_ with your correct folder):
export PATH=/opt/Qt5.3.1/5.3/gcc_64/bin/:$PATH
Then compile
Once you installed all dependencies (Qt is installed and in your path) you need to compile and run the application:
# Get it from GitHub
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git
cd cool-retro-term
# Compile (Fedora and OpenSUSE user should use qmake-qt5 instead of qmake)
qmake && make
# Have fun!
./cool-retro-term
Build from source on OSX
- Install Xcode and agree to the licence agreement
- Install using Brew or MacPorts:
Brew
brew install qt5
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/qt5/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib"
export PATH=/usr/local/opt/qt5/bin:$PATH
cd cool-retro-term
qmake && make
mkdir cool-retro-term.app/Contents/PlugIns
cp -r qmltermwidget/QMLTermWidget cool-retro-term.app/Contents/PlugIns
open cool-retro-term.app
MacPorts
sudo port install qt5
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git
cd cool-retro-term
/opt/local/libexec/qt5/bin/qmake && make
mkdir cool-retro-term.app/Contents/PlugIns
cp -r qmltermwidget/QMLTermWidget cool-retro-term.app/Contents/PlugIns
open cool-retro-term.app
Donations
I made this project in my spare time because I love what I'm doing. If you are enjoying it, why not buy me a beer .
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