terminal emulator for lithium

or1o9 · 2019-08-27 18:45:14

A good choice for default terminal. It seems that lxterminal starts about half a second faster than terminator here on my Lithium install. And it is ok for me, but then again, I am not that picky about my black box.

Terminator is a much cooler name though. 8)

DeepDayze · 2019-08-29 03:17:08

ohnonot wrote:

Good you made the move away from Terminator!
If Roxterm was still under development it would be a better choice than lxterminal... (ducks and runs)

Oh I really LOVED Roxterm...shame that there was no one offering to take it over from the original developer. Roxterm was the Swiss Army Knife of terminals

PackRat · 2019-08-29 09:53:53

DeepDayze wrote:

ohnonot wrote:
Good you made the move away from Terminator!
If Roxterm was still under development it would be a better choice than lxterminal... (ducks and runs)
Oh I really LOVED Roxterm...shame that there was no one offering to take it over from the original developer. Roxterm was the Swiss Army Knife of terminals

I think ROXTerm got picked up. It was moved to git and has seen a bit of development; mostly clearing the backlog of bug reports. It's the AUR, don't know what version is in the Debian repos.

MALsPa · 2019-08-29 12:20:39

PackRat wrote:

don't know what version is in the Debian repos

Found this:

Package roxterm-gtk2
jessie (oldoldstable) (x11): Multi-tabbed GTK+/VTE terminal emulator - GTK2 version
2.9.5-1: amd64 armel armhf i386
sid (unstable) (x11): Multi-tabbed GTK+/VTE terminal emulator - GTK2 version
2.9.4-1 [debports]: arm64
Package roxterm-gtk3
jessie (oldoldstable) (x11): Multi-tabbed GTK+/VTE terminal emulator - GTK3 version
2.9.5-1: amd64 armel armhf i386
sid (unstable) (x11): Multi-tabbed GTK+/VTE terminal emulator - GTK3 version
2.9.4-1 [debports]: arm64

https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

PackRat · 2019-08-29 12:55:52

That's the version roxterm-gtk in the AUR as well, the forked version roxterm is at version 3.7.5. Kind of confusing that the developer kept the name.

johnraff · 2019-08-30 03:00:11

Also this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=827768

So there's no roxterm in Debian except for a residue of 2.9.5 in Jessie, which has a Release Critical bug related to GTK3, and was abandoned by the developer.

It looks as if the same upstream developer picked it up again and moved it to github (see the changelog), so there's no reason why he should change the name.

Maybe someone will re-adopt the revived roxterm as maintainer and upload it to Debian. Bullseye?

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DeepDayze · 2019-09-01 01:57:22

PackRat wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
ohnonot wrote:
Good you made the move away from Terminator!
If Roxterm was still under development it would be a better choice than lxterminal... (ducks and runs)
Oh I really LOVED Roxterm...shame that there was no one offering to take it over from the original developer. Roxterm was the Swiss Army Knife of terminals
I think ROXTerm got picked up. It was moved to git and has seen a bit of development; mostly clearing the backlog of bug reports. It's the AUR, don't know what version is in the Debian repos.

Would be nice if this version gets back into Debian. It's been sorely missed.

johnraff wrote:

Also this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=827768
So there's no roxterm in Debian except for a residue of 2.9.5 in Jessie, which has a Release Critical bug related to GTK3, and was abandoned by the developer.
It looks as if the same upstream developer picked it up again and moved it to github (see the changelog), so there's no reason why he should change the name.
Maybe someone will re-adopt the revived roxterm as maintainer and upload it to Debian. Bullseye?

Oh nice, it must appear the original developer took a break from it and decided to take a fresh look at it again. Hopefully the major bugs are getting fixed up and someone might step forward as the maintainer for it so it can be put back in Debian (hopefully for Bullseye).

Last edited by DeepDayze (2019-09-01 02:01:59)

ohnonot · 2019-09-01 06:09:46

^ IDK; the Readme reads like not much beyond the name is left from the original roxterm.

johnraff · 2019-09-03 02:32:09

^But I think those changes/bloatification crept in before the break, not after the move to github. And the developer's name is definitely the same - unless it's been taken over by an imposter.

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