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 under Linux and OSX and requires Qt 5.2 or higher.
You can either build cool-retro-term yourself (see below) or walk the easy way and install one of these packages:
Users of Fedora and openSUSE can grab a package from Open Build Service.
Arch users can install this package directly via the AUR:
yaourt -S aur/cool-retro-term-git
or use:
pacman -S cool-retro-term
to install precompiled from community repository.
Gentoo users can now install the first release "1.0" from a 3rd-party repository preferably via layman:
USE="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 before 27/08/17 should remove, update and add it again as its source has changed
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 users of 14.04 LTS (Trusty) up to 15.10 (Wily) can use this PPA
OSX users can grab the latest dmg from the release page: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases
Make sure to install these 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
Ubuntu 17.04
sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel qml-module-qt-labs-settings qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qmlscene qt5-default qt5-qmake qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-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 This command should install the known fedora dependencies:
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 Linux
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 here http://qt-project.org/downloads . Once done export them in you 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/:$PATH
Once you installed all dependencies (Qt is installed and in your path) you need to compile and run the application:
# Get it from GitHub
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git
# Build it
cd cool-retro-term
# Compile (Fedora and OpenSUSE user should use qmake-qt5 instead of qmake)
qmake && make
# Have fun!
./cool-retro-term- Install Xcode and agree to the licence agreement
- Enter the following commands into the terminal:
Brew
brew install qt5
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/qt5/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib"
export PATH=/usr/local/opt/qt5/bin:$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.appMacPorts
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.appI made this project in my spare time because I love what I'm doing. If you are enjoying it and you want to buy me a beer click here .
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