Potential Terminator config for Helium-dev

tknomanzr · 2018-02-11 21:37:08

Going back to Deuterium non-colours as HoaS prefers is an option we should perhaps also keep in mind, though it's not very interesting...
Any other opinions?

We could certainly do so, but to me, the Deuterium theme just not blend well with the rest of the Helium theme. So here is one last attempt. I have placed the Deuterium terminals to the right for comparison. I also changed tint2's text colors to help blend the elements of the terminal, conky, and tint2 together. It's ok if we want to stick with Deuterium's defaults. I just want to get back to my work on bl-exit, and with school, I find myself needing to prioritize my time, so I don't want to end up bogged down in the bike shed.

@joahnraff if you set transparency less than roughly 95% opaque, the colors tend to shift a bit depending on where on the screen the terminal lies in reference to the underlying wallpaper. Thus, the terminal ends up lighter over the light parts and vice versa. For this reason, I chose to ditch transparency altogether.

[global_config]
  dbus = False
  enabled_plugins = TerminatorThemes, LaunchpadCodeURLHandler, APTURLHandler, LaunchpadBugURLHandler
  title_font = Monospace 11
  title_inactive_bg_color = "#2e3436"
  title_inactive_fg_color = "#888a85"
  title_receive_bg_color = "#2e3436"
  title_transmit_bg_color = "#2e3436"
  title_transmit_fg_color = "#6daaaa"
  title_use_system_font = False
[keybindings]
  hide_window = <Shift><Control>a
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      parent = window0
      type = Terminal
    [[[window0]]]
      parent = ""
      size = 680, 540
      type = Window
[plugins]
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    background_color = "#2e3949"
    cursor_color = "#6ab3b3"
    font = Monospace 11
    foreground_color = "#6daaaa"
    palette = "#5f5f5f:#d96468:#a2d964:#d9c964:#64a2d9:#9a64d9:#64d9d5:#989898:#828282:#d98f93:#b8d98f:#d9cf8f:#8f99d9:#b08fd9:#8fd9d5:#c5c5c5"
    use_system_font = False

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-11 22:21:02

I love those colours but can we please lose the superfluous second title bar, that just wastes screen real estate (IMO).

EDIT: this should do it:

show_titlebar = False

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2018-02-11 22:23:51)

tknomanzr · 2018-02-11 22:28:54

That is not a problem. I usually don't have it turned on. I guess it is there for undecorated windows.

johnraff · 2018-02-12 02:53:06

This looks very nice - is everyone OK if we go with this config?

Couple of non-colour tweaks:
1) Do we need to enable those plugins by default, especially the Launchpad ones? Just omit this line?

enabled_plugins = TerminatorThemes, LaunchpadCodeURLHandler, APTURLHandler, LaunchpadBugURLHandler

2) As HoaS points out, disable the extra title, and as I pointed out, enable the separate cursor colour, with these two extra lines in [profiles]

show_titlebar = False
cursor_color_fg = False

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Then set for urxvt, in .Xdefaults:
font to monospace 11
spacing to -2
foregound to #6daaaa
background to #2e3949
transparency off
OK?
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Finally, @tknomanzr, which text colour settings did you change in tint2rc?
Should we change the tooltip background colour to #2e3949 to match the terminal?

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Tint2: it's a pity that the system-tray tooltip styling doesn't match tint2's tooltips, but there's no quick fix for that I suppose, without diving into the GTK theme, right? Anyway, if anyone feels like taking this issue up it needs a new topic thread.

johnraff · 2018-02-12 05:20:41

Paint that shed...

@tknomanzr humble apologies, and I know you want to get back to your real work, but I just ran into Damo's confguration for dmenu. The colours are quite similar. If we adopted:

foreground_color = "#ADD8E6"
background_color = "#082B4A"

dmenu and terminal would match exactly. I think it still looks quite nice.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-12 07:59:53

johnraff wrote:

Then set for urxvt, in .Xdefaults

Urxvt will ignore ~/.Xdefaults if any X resources are set (as in BunsenLabs) so we should use ~/.Xresources instead.

johnraff · 2018-02-13 01:57:16

^Yes, indeed. Sorry, I always get mixed up with those two.
.Xresources is the BL default.

btw, how about removing all the xscreensaver stuff from that? Is anybody likely to want it?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-13 07:44:41

johnraff wrote:

removing all the xscreensaver stuff from that?

+1

jwz would be annoyed if any BunsenLabs users ran his software anyway...

EDIT: reference: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=819703

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2018-02-13 07:46:03)

cloverskull · 2018-02-13 09:48:15

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

jwz would be annoyed if any BunsenLabs users ran his software anyway...
EDIT: reference: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=819703

Oh man...this brings back memories. Hah.

johnraff · 2018-02-14 01:42:09

Using the colours I found in Damo's config file for dmenu, adding back a hint of transparency at 0.90, and adjusting tint2's tooltip colours to match too:

This slightly modified version of tknomanzr's last config file:

[global_config]
  dbus = False
  title_font = Monospace 11
  title_inactive_bg_color = "#2e3436"
  title_inactive_fg_color = "#888a85"
  title_receive_bg_color = "#2e3436"
  title_transmit_bg_color = "#2e3436"
  title_transmit_fg_color = "#6daaaa"
  title_use_system_font = False
[keybindings]
  hide_window = <Shift><Control>a
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      parent = window0
      type = Terminal
    [[[window0]]]
      parent = ""
      size = 680, 540
      type = Window
[plugins]
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    show_titlebar = False
    background_darkness = 0.90
    background_type = transparent
    background_color = "#082B4A"
    cursor_color = "#6ab3b3"
    cursor_color_fg = False
    foreground_color = "#ADD8E6"
    font = Monospace 11
    palette = "#5f5f5f:#d96468:#a2d964:#d9c964:#64a2d9:#9a64d9:#64d9d5:#989898:#828282:#d98f93:#b8d98f:#d9cf8f:#8f99d9:#b08fd9:#8fd9d5:#c5c5c5"
    use_system_font = False

I find that text readable and think having the colours matching looks quite good.
Of course using tknomanzr's suggested - slightly more subdued - colours, and matching dmenu and tint2 to that, would work too.

tknomanzr · 2018-02-14 02:19:41

It looks much better with the hint of transparency. Without it, that color combo made me immediately think of Windows PowerShell. I like it either way.

johnraff · 2018-02-14 02:58:54

johnraff wrote:

Of course using tknomanzr's suggested - slightly more subdued - colours, and matching dmenu and tint2 to that, would work too.

For comparison:

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-02-14 07:46:21

johnraff wrote:

Using the colours I found in Damo's config file for dmenu, adding back a hint of transparency at 0.90, and adjusting tint2's tooltip colours to match too

^ This gets my vote.

(OT: this thread is like being at the opticians)

johnraff · 2018-02-15 05:31:24

Tweaked .Xresources to get the urxvt window the same size as Terminator's.
URxvt.geometry: 94x33
(Also had to adjust Terminator's height just a bit, because at 680, 540 it seemed to be on half a line, which no urxvt height would match, so set it to 680, 535.)
With
URxvt.letterSpace: -2
the text looks identical in the two terminals.

Since there's no default tooltip for the tint2 clock I added one (I always forget the date).
Also tried making the clock font colour the same as Conky, per a previous suggestion.
(urxvt on the right.)

.Xresources:

! font settings --------------------------------------------------------------

Xft.autohint: true
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
!Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

! urxvt -------------------------------------------

URxvt.font: xft:Monospace:size=11
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Monospace:Bold:size=11
URxvt.letterSpace: -2
! Add fallback fonts as laid out in `man 1 urxvt` under "font:" in the RESOURCES section

! Window size and position
!URxvt*geometry: 60x22+50+100
! Window size, let the Window Manager position it
URxvt.geometry: 94x33

URxvt.scrollstyle: plain
URxvt.scrollBar: true
URxvt.scrollBar_right: true
URxvt.iconFile: /usr/share/icons/Paper/48x48/apps/utilities-terminal.png
URxvt.cursorBlink: true
URxvt.fading: 20

! Grey theming
!URxvt*background: #cecece
!URxvt*foreground: #101010
! Terminator Beam colours
URxvt.background: [90]#082B4A
URxvt.foreground: #ADD8E6

! scrollback buffer lines - 65535 is max (64 is default)
URxvt.saveLines: 16384

! True Transparency, opacity percentage set in square brackets before URxvt.background colour
URxvt.depth: 32

! Clickble URLs
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt.url-launcher: /usr/bin/x-www-browser
URxvt.matcher.button: 3

! Custom colourscheme, see http://terminal.sexy/ for more ideas.

! Black
URxvt.color0: #000000
URxvt.color8: #555753

! Red
URxvt.color1: #cc0000
URxvt.color9: #ef2929

! Green
URxvt.color2: #4e9a06
URxvt.color10: #8ae234

! Yellow
URxvt.color3: #c4a000
URxvt.color11: #fce94f

! Blue
URxvt.color4: #3465a4
URxvt.color12: #729fcf

! Magenta
URxvt.color5: #75507b
URxvt.color13: #ad7fa8

!Cyan
URxvt.color6: #06989a
URxvt.color14: #34e2e2

! White
URxvt.color7: #d3d7cf
URxvt.color15: #eeeeec

! Colourised man pages, also changes scheme for htop(1) and others.
!
! Headings:
! URxvt.colorBD: #cf6171
!
! Underline:
! URxvt.colorUL: #4186be
!
! Italicised:
! URxvt.colorIT: #71bebe

If there's no objection in a day or so I'll put the above in bunsen-configs and move on to baking an alpha iso...

tknomanzr · 2018-02-15 17:23:30

^ This is looking good.

Jimbo_G · 2018-02-16 08:24:32

I agree

dolly · 2018-02-16 16:31:17

johnraff wrote:

If there's no objection in a day or so I'll put the above in bunsen-configs and move on to baking an alpha iso...

Ssssh. Hush!

martix · 2018-03-02 19:06:44

I just don't get it: If I put in "autostart"

terminator -H &

in order to start it in the background (-H or --hidden stands for "Hide the window at startup"), why does it actually open the terminal window after booting? Or is there maybe an other way to start Terminator in the background?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-03-02 19:22:45

martix wrote:

Terminator in the background?

Openbox can be set to start it minimised (I think), if that's what you mean.

Perhaps the "hidden" feature only applies to GNOME.

martix · 2018-03-02 22:20:59

^I mean what it says: Hide the Window at startup, so Terminal starts, but there is no window open and I can use terminator's shortcuts.

Switches seem to work, I can start terminator borderless with "-b", "--title=Whatever" or "--layout=Layoutname" works as well.

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