GNOME Terminal Gets Text Rewrap On Resizing

[n3wu53r]

Yes! Even modern terminal have the preview pictrues feature, incredible! lol

I think I'm goidn to adopt Final Term, nice app :-)

Still under heavy development; no real release. You will likely have to build from git.
Still a lot of performance issues.

https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/issues/150

Which is realted to: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/clut.../msg00010.html

Performance Breakthrough
Many of the "improvements" made in the past months have slowed down Final Term, and two weeks ago, it at last became clear to me that development of terminal functionality could not continue in earnest without fixing the performance first.

As a result, a number of changes were made to bring Final Term up to speed. It is now "only" 8-10 times slower than GNOME Terminal, which isn't anything to write home about but might be excused given that Final Term manages a much more complex model of the terminal output. In practice, the difference should be hardly noticeable.

Once the remaining problem, absurdly high CPU usage when idle, is fixed (which you can help with by answering https://mail.gnome.org/archives/clut.../msg00010.html!), Final Term's performance will be ready for the initial release.

Taken from http://blog.finalterm.org/2013/09/becoming-big.html

[ninez]

Not quite sure what you mean here since transparency has never been taken away.

..or you just are mistaken

Gnome 3.8 removed transparency and some other features from gnome-terminal. I was going to post a link to the bugzilla report - but it's getting an internal error / not working. Regardless, it's _even_ on wikipedia (lulz); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Terminal#Background

Transparent background. Users can also select any amount of transparency (ranging from fully transparent to fully opaque). If the user has the option for compositing turned on, the background will reveal the windows behind the terminal window. Otherwise, if compositing is disabled, the terminal will only be translucent with the user's desktop wallpaper. Translucent backgrounds are desired because the user can read text behind the terminal while entering commands into the command line. In Gnome Terminal 3.8 and onwards the option for a transparent background was removed.[8]

..But maybe you are using Ubuntu (or another distro patching it) and just aren't aware of the situation. [Ubuntu /possibly others are patching patching 'post-3.8 releases' of gnome-terminal [so am i]. (Ubuntu gnome-terminal-3.8.0 change log); https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+...-archive-extra

* note the 02_add_transparency_properties.patch under 'debian/patches'.

[legluondunet]

Terminology and Final Term also have this feature.

http://finalterm.org/

Yes! Even modern terminal have the preview pictrues feature, incredible! lol

I think I'm goidn to adopt Final Term, nice app :-)

[n3wu53r]

Terminology and Final Term also have this feature.

http://finalterm.org/

[legluondunet]

Im glad to see gnome developers finally putting features in, instead of taking them out. Does anybody know if they'll bring back transparency to gnome terminal soon?

Good question! It is one reason I don't use it anymore. No transparency for a 2013 terminal? It's a joke?

An asking feature 9 years old and present on all modern OS: preview picture in file chooser, Windows have this feature for windows 95! https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154, shame...

[sarmad]

Im glad to see gnome developers finally putting features in, instead of taking them out. Does anybody know if they'll bring back transparency to gnome terminal soon?

Not quite sure what you mean here since transparency has never been taken away.

[oleid]

I thought no rewrap is a deliberate design decision. And wow, why does even a lousy text editor have rewrap but gnome/kde consoles don't? They use a different/archaic toolkit to draw text or what?

Text rewrapping in terminals is a bit more difficult than in text editors, I think there might be issues e.g. when using curses(-like) applications.

[mark45]

I thought no rewrap is a deliberate design decision. And wow, why does even a lousy text editor have rewrap but gnome/kde consoles don't? They use a different/archaic toolkit to draw text or what?

[Bbox]

terminology does it also...

Indeed, my first thought was E is bringing some fresh competition, they will kick some ass in the future.

[devius]

Finally!! I agree with rohcQaH. I never knew how useful this was until I started using a Mac. However, this also brings a few more issues like some lines not getting updated in some cases.