Terminology

Terminology is an open source software project, a terminal emulator application that runs on top of the X Window System on a wide range of GNU/Linux operating systems. It is specifically designed to be deployed along with the Enlightenment desktop environment.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to emulate a somewhat extended VT100 with various plugins and some eye-candy, XTerm supported escapes (including 256 color), RXVT support, support for backgrounds (can be animated gifs, bitmaps, videos, or scalable/vector images), transparency, as well as support for scalable and bitmap fonts.

Among other features, we can mention support for Wayland and X.Org display servers, media streaming support, file path support, URL and email address detection, link handling, inline display of link content, support for multiple copy/paste selections, and buffer support.

Additionally, the application works well on the Linux framebuffer, can be easily controlled with a finget on a touch screen, uses a tabbed interface, and supports drag & drop of links and text selections.

Under the hood and availability

The application is written with the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) project for the well known Enlightenment desktop environment. It is available for download as a source archive for configuring, compiling and installing the software on any Linux OS.

However, because it can run as a standalone application on any other open source desktop environment, the best way to install Terminology on your Linux distribution is by using the packages from the official software repositories, as long as all requirements are met.

Bottom line

Terminology is a terminal emulator like no other, providing users with the future of terminal emulator apps. While it features a beautiful and attractive design, it includes a ton of powerful functions, making it the number one choice for developers, programmers and anyone else who works a lot in the Linux console.

What is new in this release:

• Additions:
• Double-click on tab title to change it
• Add option to disable focus-in/out animations and visuals
• Add option to set current window size as default.
• Support Right/Left Margins
• Support for the DECERA/DECFRA escape codes
• Move cursor to position on Click+Alt
• Add bindings (Alt+Up/Down/Left/Right) to move around panes
• Improvements:
• Fallback to ~ or / when creating new terminal if current directory is not available
• Support only efl >= 1.8.0
• Harden escape codes decoding
• Update all terms of a window when changing font (name or size)
• Remove teamwork feature
• Fixes:
• Correctly handle the DECOM, DECSTBM, DECSLRM escape codes
• Fix crash when resizing and there are tabs in content
• Fix mouse motion and mouse button reporting
• Set window sizing to 1px-step when having visible tabs

What is new in version 0.8.0:

• Add a visual tab bar
• Gravatar support
• Add xterm "notification" support
• Display pre-edit text when composing
• Selection improvements
• Updated translations
• Various bug fixes

What is new in version 0.7.0:

• Internationalization and Localization support
• Configurable key bindings
• Add a panel to launch elementary_config
• Opacity level can be configured in translucent mode
• Options -s/--split to start terminology with multiple splits
• Add position indicator to the Miniview
• Improve media controls
• Use a scalable font on default configuration
• Usual round of improvements on terminal compatibility
• Fix issue with mute option
• Various bug fixes

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• Reduced power consumption
• Add .tga images to recognized files
• Fix issues with the teamwork module and popups.

What is new in version 0.5.1:

• This release fixes that issue.
• The issue with prompts disappearing on resize is also fixed in that release.

What is new in version 0.4.0:

• Compress backscroll
• Add audio keyboard
• Text reflow
• Full 256-colors support
• Improve terminal compatibility
• Improve selection
• Add a man page
• Add option to set geometry on start
• Be able to inline edje objects
• Bug fixes