ROXTerm

ROXTerm is an open source and free graphical software implemented in C/GTK+, based on the popular VTE library, and designed from the ground up to act as a terminal emulator application for the ROX desktop environment.

A feature-rich, tabbed terminal emulator

This Terminal app is very similar to the GNOME Terminal software and provides users wtih quicker start up times and a smaller footprint. ROXTerm is a tabbed terminal emulator app that can be easily used as a ROX application, as well as on other X11 environments.

In addition, ROXTerm can be easily configured via a separate applet that provides the configuration GUI (Graphical User Interface). It is aimed at power users and it’s compatible with all GNU/Linux operating systems, but especially distributed on lightweight ones that also use a minimalist window manager.

Getting started with ROXTerm

To install and use the ROXTerm application on your GNU/Linux distribution, we strongly suggest you to open your package manager and install the application from the main software repositories of your OS. This will save you a lot of time, but if you are a hardcore Linux user and you want to optimize the software for a specific architecture, use the source package provided on Softoware.

Download the tarball (TAR archive), save it on a location of your choice, unpack it using the default archive manager utility, open a terminal emulator application, navigate to the location of the extracted archive files using the ‘cd’ command (e.g. cd /home/softoware/roxterm-2.9.5) and type the ‘./mscript.py help or ‘python mscript.py help’ to learn how to use the maitch build system that is used for this application to configure and compile it.

After installation, you will be able to open ROXTerm from the main menu of your desktop environment. It will look just like the GNOME Terminal app and can be used immediately to run commands.

What is new in this release:

• Terminals running the default shell are only considered to be running (when confirming close actions) if the shells have child processes. This may only work in Linux.

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• Terminals running the default shell are only considered to be running (when confirming close actions) if the shells have child processes. This may only work in Linux.

What is new in version 3.1.5:

• This version supports the saving and restoring of named user sessions.
• The initial number of tabs profile option has been removed; its functionality is better served by sessions.

What is new in version 3.0.2:

• Terminal background options are disabled when using a recent version of VTE which deprecates them.

What is new in version 2.9.7:

• Terminal background options are disabled when using a recent version of VTE which deprecates them.

What is new in version 2.9.5:

• Terminal background options are disabled when using a recent version of VTE which deprecates them.

What is new in version 1.18.5:

• Fixes terminals' response to options being changed.
• Adds --disable-sm runtime option.

What is new in version 1.18.4:

• TERM and COLORTERM are now configurable.

What is new in version 1.18.3:

• Call gtk_window_present when --tab is used.
• Update window title even if it hasn't been set by vte signal.
• Fixed obscure crash.

What is new in version 1.18.1:

• Supports X session management.
• Rudimentary ssh support.
• Profile editor redesign, including new fullscreen & maximise options.
• New menu items to open a terminal with a specific profile.
• Ability to restart a command.
• Always show tabs is on by default and single tabs only take up as much
• space as they need.

What is new in version 1.15.1:

• New Tango theme
• Multiple tabs in one window may now have different profiles
• Inactive tabs are highlighted by bell
• Cursor shape options
• Simpler context menu when menu bar is enabled
• Several other minor improvements

What is new in version 1.14.1:

• It's now possible to configure a terminal from a script etc running in it.
• The are new menu items to reorder tabs.
• The cursor blink option has changed (when using vte 0.17.1 or newer).

Requirements:

• gtk+
• VTE
• libglade
• libdbus-glib