PTerm

Using Unix terminal from Pharo.

Note: this work is based on the work at: https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/terminal

Require libc compliant with the host pharo VM (32 or 64 bits) to be installed.

Install

Install on pharo 9 or 10

Metacello new
	repository: 'github://lxsang/PTerm';
	baseline:'PTerm';
	load

Support for older version (Pharo 7) on this branch

Usage

TerminalEmulator openShell: '/bin/bash'

/!\ tip: by default select text in terminal will copy it, right click will paste te copied text.

Fonts and Themes

Fonts

By default, PTerm automatically downloads and uses 'DejaVu Sans Mono' as the default font, but you can always change the default font by accessing to the terminal window menu as below:

Normally, the default font (DejaVu Sans Mono) supports most commonly used Unicode character. But for those who want heavily Unicode support (Chinese, Thai, Japanese, etc.), PTerm has a second option in the window menu, that allows to automatically download and use Unifont (12 MB) as the default font. This font offers 65536 Unicode codepoints hence supports almost every language, it doesn't look really nice though.

Themes

The default theme of PTerm can also be changed via the window menu, some available themes in dark and light mode: