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Stjerm - Dropdown Terminal Emulator
Posted: Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:02
by aragon
Home:
http://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal-emulator/
Version: 0.13
Stjerm is a GTK+-based drop-down terminal emulator similar to the consoles used in PC games such as Quake and Half-Life 2. Stjerm sets itself apart from similar programs by providing a minimalistic interface combined with a small file size, lightweight memory usage and easy integration with composite window managers such as Compiz.
As stjerm needs a starter-script, i've renamed the bin to stjerm-bin and called the script stjerm. To alter the look and feel, you'll have to edit
Sterm is started (and stopped) from menu => utility. it runs in the background and will be 'dropped' down by pressing 'F11'. this could also be altered in /usr/bin/stjerm.
Needs vte from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 109#363109
Compiled and tested in 4.31.
aragon
Posted: Wed 18 Nov 2009, 14:55
by aragon
One thing i forgot:
It does not have to be that 'ugly'. You could also have background-images, fake-transparency...
doc is at /usr/share/doc . remember you'll have to change the settings in /usr/bin/stjerm.
aragon
Posted: Sun 22 Nov 2009, 13:58
by `f00
I like it. Not clear on how to start other tabs and a few things (but then I'm pretty much a lightweight with cli or even keycommands for that matter), like trying 'stjerm -help' made it terminate itself (but it did start arora and I can edit the html help a bit to suit, Composer is good at that). But for most everything else it's real handy and looks good. Not really sure that it does a true translucency (Jwm-beta with kcompmgr will show a serial focus-trans with overlaid windows) from the little I tried it there, but it's quite good at automatically getting out of the way if focus isn't held.
Nope, not ugly at all - easy to preset the options for as many different looks/ways as you like (but only one may be on-deck at a time, I believe .. one of the reasons it'd be an advantage to have tabs like mrxvt). I'll figure it out soon enough, probably.
Posted: Mon 23 Nov 2009, 08:14
by aragon
`f00,
Code: Select all
Ctrl+Shift+T => new tab
Ctrl+Shift+W => close actual tab
the 'ugly'-post was because of my grey-preset.
translucency/transparency:
the doc says, that is uses real transparency if a compmgr is found, else uses fake-transparency.
yes '--help' and "--info" terminates the app, seems to be a bug. another one is, that if you toggle to fullscreen (right-click option) you can't toggle back to the previous size, it allways stays in fullscreen until you restart.
aragon
Posted: Thu 05 Jan 2012, 03:13
by harii4
My htop states that
3 of the
stjerm-bin running?
How do i fix?
Posted: Thu 19 Jan 2012, 20:48
by `f00
multiple pids is normal for some apps (try tree view in htop to see the relationship) - nothing to 'fix', really .. that's just how it works. ipager's another one that does basically the same thing. Wine apps generally have a slew of 'support' when loaded .. and so on.
Other than being a bit 'heavy' for a terminal emulator, stjerm's a nice handy alternative (yup, it does do tabs
Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2012, 03:45
by harii4
multiple pids is normal for some apps (try tree view in htop to see the relationship) - nothing to 'fix', really .. that's just how it works. ipager's another one that does basically the same thing. Wine apps generally have a slew of 'support' when loaded .. and so on.
Other than being a bit 'heavy' for a terminal emulator, stjerm's a nice handy alternative (yup, it does do tabs
Thank you -thats good to know.
Now i need to see how heavy is yeahconsole + xterm vs. stjerm.
