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Terminology still has problems compared to SecureCRT or rxvt-unicode. I have been trying it on and off, as recently as this morning from the latest builds on ppa hannes-janetzek/svn-enlightenment, and if you fill the screen with text, it frequently does the wrong thing with the scrollback buffer, but as far as advanced terminals go, there's nothing for competition with Terminology.

For the neatest demo of what you might want to do, download the development version of Elive -- there is a demonstration showing how the terminal can have a transparent video (or is it rendered EFL/OpenGL?) as a background.

The terminal shows promise, and I don't think I've filed a bug that hasn't been corrected and closed, so if anyone with more expertise can replicate problems as I've described, maybe you should do that.

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Please open bug reports on http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/newticket or at least explain your issues here so I know what to fix. Also check in the TODO file if it's not already listed.

I'm currently working on text reflow when resizing terminology.

Text reflow accurately characterizes the issues I would think you'd be working on, to fix what I've seen.

I just fired up a virtualbox. All you have to do to see the misbehavior is run 'ps wuax' in a regular 80x24 terminology and then go to fullscreen. Your cursor winds up in the middle of the screen, above some of the text that used to show before the cursor, and before the cursor is a big empty space or certainly nothing sensible.

I just confirmed that my build from 3/20 has the problem, and a newer build on 3/25 has the same issue.

I will file a ticket if you can't reproduce right away, and gladly help out!

It's exactly what I'm working on, thank you. See trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/1184 It will be there for the next release.

Like I said. I haven't opened a ticket that I haven't seen fixed. This is why I enlightenment. Thank you!

FWIW, the ppa is hannes-janetzek/enlightment-svn, and you can try it out in Ubuntu with:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightment-svn

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install terminology

great effort coming along. I'm sticking with terminator for now but will keep my eye on terminolog.

Unfortunately, terminology seems to be broken for me :(

  [buster@Fry➔ ~] terminology 
  terminology: symbol lookup error:   /usr/lib/libelementary.so.1: undefined symbol:   ECORE_X_ATOM_E_ILLUME_ACCESS_ACTION_ACTIVATE

You might get this error when your EFL stack needs upgrading. Did you use the PPA? What version of Ubuntu are you on?

For me, I wasn't able to finish apt-get upgrade without uninstalling an old libefl and all of its dependencies (some libraries that have been since merged into libefl I think), then installing again.

Try doing `apt-get dist-upgrade`

I had theefl-trunk installed before, but ppa-purge didn't remove everything, i suppose. Went through libe* libraries and purged whatever came from e17. Installed again.. working now, woohooo!

I never heard of ppa-purge before. Thanks for playing! :)

I'm wondering.. when i hit ctrl-shift-t it seems to open a new terminal? Atleast i get a new prompt.. but no way to switch?

Confirmed. I have no idea what it's doing, maybe this is preliminary support for tabs. You have more terminals to log out from after ctrl+shift+t.

According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445978

CTRL-Pgup and Pgdown, trying tomorrow :)

You misspelt:

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn

ah, so I did. Thanks!

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