Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: libvte-free terminal emulator? was: ROXterm flickers in ascii

[golinux]

On 2018-01-04 06:34, m712 wrote:


This is slightly unrelated, but can anyone recommend a  libvte-free
terminal emulator that is similar to xfce4-terminal and can handle
ligatures? I want to use Fira Code on my terminal; however all
libvte-using terminals are affected by a (rather appalling) bug
 which has been
open for quite some time, where the text gets mangled and characters
go missing with the Fira Code font.

ps: I really enjoy the dismissive attitude of the gnome devs on that 
bugzilla.


   m712
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Just a side-note on Fira . . . The devuan.org website originally chose 
Fira Sans as the default font.  It was so buggy and unreliable, we had 
to switch to Open Sans instead.  And Photoshop running in wine couldn't 
handle Fira either.  I suggest finding a font that actually works.


golinux

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Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: libvte-free terminal emulator? was: ROXterm flickers in ascii

[Florian Zieboll]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:34:34 +0300
m712  wrote:

> ligatures (...) on my terminal

I find this even funnier than HP's pixel-based remote console (iLO 2),
which I learned about this morning^^

scnr (and a cheerful new year to everybody!)

Florian

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Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: libvte-free terminal emulator? was: ROXterm flickers in ascii

[Didier Kryn]

Le 04/01/2018 à 13:34, m712 a écrit :

This is slightly unrelated, but can anyone recommend a  libvte-free terminal emulator 
that is similar to xfce4-terminal and can handle ligatures? I want to use Fira Code 
on my terminal; however all libvte-using terminals are affected by a (rather 
appalling) bug  which has 
been open for quite some time, where the text gets mangled and characters go missing 
with the Fira Code font.

ps: I really enjoy the dismissive attitude of the gnome devs on that bugzilla.


    My understanding is that he authors of libvte are facing a rather 
difficult problem. Not all scripts can fit with the grid model on which 
terminal emulators are based (divide the screen in identical boxes and 
put the characters in the boxes). It seems there was never a typewriter 
for the glyphs in question, because the problem is conceptual. I 
appreciate they think and talk of it long and carefully instead of 
jumping to their editor.


        Didier


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[DNG] Fwd: Re: libvte-free terminal emulator? was: ROXterm flickers in ascii

[m712]

On January 2, 2018 7:13:50 PM GMT+03:00, Irrwahn  wrote:
>Hendrik Boom wrote on 02.01.2018 16:46:
>> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 11:04:32AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>> Le 02/01/2018 à 03:40, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
 I've been using ROXterm in Devuan ascii.
>[...]
>>>     In which repository did you find roxterm? I can find rox-filer
>(which
>>> needs some hand-made configuration) in ASCII, but not roxterm.
>> 
>> I'm not sure.  Possibly somewhere Steve Litt recommended, but I no
>longer 
>> know.  I'll investigate on the off chance I'll find out.
>> 
>> If it's not in Devuan, obviously it's not a Devuan problem.
>
>In case you become interested in a replacement with a similar 
>feature set, yet still small-ish footprint and reasonable list 
>of dependencies: I can recommend sakura! I've been using it for 
>years now (after gnome-terminal and its clones went belly-up 
>along with the rest of the train wreck that once was a workable 
>desktop environment) and never had reason to look back or complain. 
>
>Terminator would be another alternative. However, to me it feels 
>a bit sluggish — might have to do with it being seemingly written
>entirely(?) in python.
>
>Urban
This is slightly unrelated, but can anyone recommend a  libvte-free terminal 
emulator that is similar to xfce4-terminal and can handle ligatures? I want to 
use Fira Code on my terminal; however all libvte-using terminals are affected 
by a (rather appalling) bug  
which has been open for quite some time, where the text gets mangled and 
characters go missing with the Fira Code font.

ps: I really enjoy the dismissive attitude of the gnome devs on that bugzilla.

   m712
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