best. auxilary. xterm. ever.

[nagash-]

This was already pretty simple to do using scriptable window managers like FVWM. And you could also use any application (ie. not just xterm)

So no biggie imo, but good for all the people who use different WMs I suppose

[InfinityX]

This was already pretty simple to do using scriptable window managers like FVWM. And you could also use any application (ie. not just xterm)

So no biggie imo, but good for all the people who use different WMs I suppose

Any chance you could post how? I'd love to be able to use urxvt instead of xterm

[nightm4re]

In contrast, yeahconsole seems to Just Work. And have a look at the dependencies...

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mu gherald # ldd `which tilda`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7d8a000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7d20000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb7d04000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7cf2000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7cd1000)
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0xb7cca000)
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0xb7cbe000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb7c84000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7c56000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7c53000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7c4f000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7bdf000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b8d000)
        libvte.so.4 => /usr/lib/libvte.so.4 (0xb7ae3000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb79f8000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7948000)
        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7945000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb793e000)
        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb793a000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb792b000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb78b6000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb788f000)
        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb788b000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb7883000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb787b000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb786f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fed000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb7848000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7804000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb77fc000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb77e7000)
        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0xb77c7000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb77b6000)
        libgpm.so.1 => /lib/libgpm.so.1 (0xb77b1000)
mu gherald # ldd `which yeahconsole`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7f1b000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7e30000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e2c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fed000)
mu gherald #

Yow!

I was looking through this thread, and while YeahConsole is a pretty neat program, this is an unfair comparison. By looking through the code, you can see that its actually launching xterm inside of this window (due to some flag @ xterm that you can do). Therefore, if you want to compare ldds, you have to include xterm as well, as that IS loaded for this to work at all.

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~/downloads/yeahconsole-0.3.1 $ ldd ./yeahconsole                          
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xa7ef4000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xa7dde000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xa7dda000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xa7fd5000)

~/downloads/yeahconsole-0.3.1 $ ldd `which xterm`              
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xa7f48000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xa7e7d000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xa7e0e000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xa7de7000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xa7ddf000)
        libXaw.so.8 => /usr/lib/libXaw.so.8 (0xa7d84000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xa7d6f000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xa7d60000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xa7d0f000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xa7d06000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xa7cee000)
        libutempter.so.0 => /usr/lib/libutempter.so.0 (0xa7cec000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xa7cab000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xa7b95000)
        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0xa7b76000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xa7b72000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xa7b62000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xa7b53000)
        libXp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXp.so.6 (0xa7b4b000)
        libgpm.so.1 => /lib/libgpm.so.1 (0xa7b44000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xa7f71000)

Not quite the same "blowaway" comparison.

[machinelou]

is there anyway to get rid of the animation entirely? It causes a bit of a slowdown if mplayer or xine is playing. Just wondering. Thanks

[Parasietje]

I'll try tilda-0.7 instead of the tilda-0.2 now in portage and post my experiences here.

[InfinityX]

is there anyway to get rid of the animation entirely? It causes a bit of a slowdown if mplayer or xine is playing. Just wondering. Thanks

Give this patch a try, I changed it so the window would slide in instantly if you set the anidelay option to 0, and also made it possible to have the console run a command (I used screen with a custom screenrc to start some common apps for example):

http://www.robotdeathmonkey.com/files/yeahconsole_patch

I can't seem to compile yeahconsole though, with or without the patch, so no guarantees.

[Dlareh]

That patch works nicely.

I have this thought of hacking it up to occupy exactly one quadrant of the screen and being able to switch instantly from quadrant to quadrant and zoom to full screen and hide it, using numerous hotkeys.

It will probably be awhile until I get around to that, though : )

[morbus]

I'm getting the following error when trying to compile yeahconsole (using the ebuild):

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(snip)
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default-1 commands
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -I -c yeahconsole.c
cp: cannot stat `.deps/yeahconsole.pp': No such file or directory
/bin/sh: .deps/yeahconsole.pp: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `.deps/yeahconsole.pp': No such file or directory
make: [yeahconsole.o] Error 1 (ignored)
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -I -L -lX11 -o yeahconsole  yeahconsole.o
cd . && autoheader
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: x11-terms/yeahconsole-0.3.1
(snip)

what bugs me even more is, that the ebuild doesn't die, although there are || die lines in the ebuild. does anybody know how to fix it?

thanks,
morbus

[slarti`]

The previous ebuild didn't work for me so I hacked it to make it work, and it did. Here goes:

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# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

inherit eutils
DESCRIPTION="Puts an xterm window on top of your screen that behaves like the console found in many games (similar to kuake). Its visibility can be toggled by a keyboard shortcut. This is a sample skeleton ebuild file"
HOMEPAGE="http://freshmeat.net/projects/yeahconsole"
SRC_URI="http://freshmeat.net/redir/yeahconsole/54521/url_tgz/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL"

SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
IUSE=""
DEPEND=""
#RDEPEND=""

S=${WORKDIR}/${P}

src_compile() {
        $S/autogen.sh || die "autogen failed"
        econf || die "econf failed"
        emake || die "emake failed"
}

src_install() {
        make DESTDIR=${D} install || die
}

I know it's not bugzilla, but just a few constructive criticisms:

• Why inherit eutils if you're not using any of those functions?
• $DESCRIPTION is kinda long, and you can get rid of that simple skeleton ebuild bit at the end
• $HOMEPAGE should be http://phrat.de/yeahtools.html
• $DEPEND should contain virtual/x11 at least.
• S=${WORKDIR}/${P} is the default -- you shouldn't redefine S unless it's not ${WORKDIR}/${P} (e.g., you're using MY_P or similar)
• '$S/autogen.sh || die "autogen failed"' is odd -- the default src_unpack should put you in $S anyway, so ./autogen.sh should be fine
• Well done for using make DESTDIR=${D} install, people often slip up and use einstall.

Happy ebuilding.

[citizen428]

For all the people wanting an ebuild: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-27 ... ml#2792403

Fixes everything slarti` pointed out and automatically applies the patch by InsanityX.

[psycepa]

I'm getting the following error when trying to compile yeahconsole (using the ebuild):

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cp: cannot stat `.deps/yeahconsole.pp': No such file or directory
/bin/sh: .deps/yeahconsole.pp: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `.deps/yeahconsole.pp': No such file or directory
make: [yeahconsole.o] Error 1 (ignored)
(deleted by me ;)

what bugs me even more is, that the ebuild doesn't die, although there are || die lines in the ebuild. does anybody know how to fix it?
thanks,
morbus

the way i fixed it isn't maby the prettiest one but IT JUST WORKS (TM)
in the directory when you have your source unpacked
go into the subdir .deps
and copy the file yeahconsole.P into yeahconsole.pp
(yeah i know it's empty and has size of 0)

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cp yeahconsole.P yeahconsole.pp

and then ./configure make and make install

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./configure
make
make install

enjoy
greetz

[psycepa]

Have anyone made yeahconsole to run screen automatically ?
what i mean is to put yeahconsole into .xinitrc and when my xfce4 starts to have yeahconsole already running with a screen session inside,
i have tried the xterm-like manner with

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yeahconsole -e screen

or with

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SHELL=screen
yeahconsole

and with && and with || (senseless but u can always try )
and some other manners but NONE of it works
maby someone managed to do so
i'd be grateful for any advice
greetz

[InfinityX]

Have anyone made yeahconsole to run screen automatically ?
what i mean is to put yeahconsole into .xinitrc and when my xfce4 starts to have yeahconsole already running with a screen session inside,
i have tried the xterm-like manner with

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yeahconsole -e screen

or with

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SHELL=screen
yeahconsole

and with && and with || (senseless but u can always try )
and some other manners but NONE of it works
maby someone managed to do so
i'd be grateful for any advice
greetz

That's part of what my patch does, I would run

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yeahconsole "screen -c .screenrc.console -d -RR console"

in my .xsession with .screenrc.console containing:

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deflogin off
vbell off

termcapinfo rxvt-unicode 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'

screen -t tail sudo tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/apache2/access_log
screen -t processes htop
screen -t email mutt
screen -t music ncmpc

[psycepa]

Hi
thanx for your reply
it's a huge thing that little yeahconsole plus your patch plus those tiny things
now it works how it should work from the beginning
once again thanxAlot
greetz

[irbaboon]

Hi

Two friends of me and I wrote a patch so that you can specify the size in pixels the window is moved around. This has two advantages .. first yeaconsole can pop down much faster, second a bigger stepsize reduces cpu load beaus the window isn't moved so often .. (increase aniDelay to slow it down again)

Default value is 1 (as before) use ~/.Xdefaults to specify:

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yeahconsole*stepSize:10

This will move the window in 10pixel steps ...


http://irbaboon.ath.cx/stepsize-yeahcon ... .patch.bz2

bunzip then cd /path/to/yeahconsole
patch -p0 < /path/to/patch
make clean && make && make install

*Greetz * and *Hf*

[irbaboon]

Some updates ...

have a look at http://irbaboon.ath.cx/dev/yeahconsole/

there you`ll find :

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InfinityX-yeahconsole-0.3.1.patch.bz2   <-- is InfinityX patch .. 
stepsize-InfinityX-yeahconsole-0.3.1.patch.bz2   <-- a patch to the original 0.3.1 sources to apply his and my patch
stepsize-yeahconsole-0.3.1-InfinityX.patch.bz2  <-- if you have the original 0.3.1 plus IfinityX patch and u want mine too take this
stepsize-yeahconsole-0.3.1.patch.bz2 <-- my patch to original 0.3.1
yeahconsole-0.3.1-stepsize-InfinityX.tar.gz <-- full sources with both patches
yeahconsole-0.3.1.tar.gz <-- original sources

Now to the behaviour ... (applies for yeahconsole with both patches)

if aniDelay is 0 yeahconsole will immediatly pop down .. regardless of stepsize
if aniDelay is above 0 you can use stepsize and aniDelay to set the popdown speed -- notice high stepsize and high anidelay will produce lower cpu usage than low stepsize and low anidelay

[phranzee]

yeahconsole doesn't work with xorg 7.0

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gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -I -c yeahconsole.c
/tmp/ccoK4AqD.o: In function `main':
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x49): undefined reference to `XDisplayName'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0xa6): undefined reference to `XSetErrorHandler'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0xbb): undefined reference to `XCreateFontCursor'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0xf1): undefined reference to `XNextEvent'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x130): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x16a): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x18f): undefined reference to `XKeycodeToKeysym'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x1d6): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x1fe): undefined reference to `XSync'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x21a): undefined reference to `XRaiseWindow'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x237): undefined reference to `XGetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x25e): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x309): undefined reference to `XResizeWindow'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x33e): undefined reference to `XResizeWindow'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x38b): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x3a0): undefined reference to `XSync'
...

[psycepa]

yeahconsole doesn't work with xorg 7.0

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gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -I -c yeahconsole.c
/tmp/ccoK4AqD.o: In function `main':
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x49): undefined reference to `XDisplayName'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0xa6): undefined reference to `XSetErrorHandler'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0xbb): undefined reference to `XCreateFontCursor'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0xf1): undefined reference to `XNextEvent'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x130): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x16a): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x18f): undefined reference to `XKeycodeToKeysym'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x1d6): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x1fe): undefined reference to `XSync'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x21a): undefined reference to `XRaiseWindow'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x237): undefined reference to `XGetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x25e): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x309): undefined reference to `XResizeWindow'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x33e): undefined reference to `XResizeWindow'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x38b): undefined reference to `XSetInputFocus'
yeahconsole.c:(.text+0x3a0): undefined reference to `XSync'
...

xorg7.0 and yeahconsole works perfectly...
i have found somewhere that if such error occur it is enouth to change -L option to gcc but dunno if it is the case...
greetz

[sdfg]

N/A

[psycepa]

I have installed version 0.3.1 and generally it works
problem occurs when i want to launch screen inside it and several apps like mc irssi and ydpdict
yeahconsole launches but instead of nice CLI of mc i got a big rectangle of a 'foreground' color which I set in the .Xdefaults
when i launch yeahconsole maunally i receive an error:

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yeahconsole: Cannot allocate color  ;Gu D$ G1 T

same happens if launchnig xterm
i have searched the web and the only resonable solution given was to include/exclude path to rgb file in xorg.conf
no luck

the instruction with i am launching yeahconsole with is:

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yeahconsole "screen -c /home/przyczepa/.screenrc.console -d -D -RR -R -T uxterm"

or

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yeahconsole "screen -c /home/przyczepa/.screenrc.console -d -D -RR -R -T urxvt"

the .screenrc.console file

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deflogin off
defutf8 on
vbell off
termcap info urxvt 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007'
screen -R -t -X mc mc
screen -R -t -X irssi -c irc.freenode.net

with this configuration yeahconsole launches and I can see CLI but
again
instead of different colors in mc or different themes of irssi I have everything in one color which is set in .Xdefaults like this:

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(...)
XTerm*foreground: red
(...)

i don't understand why configuration lines relative to xterm work if i set in config that i want urxvt in yeahconsole instead of xterm
any idea how to fix it ?
how to make yeahconsole use urxvt with several different colors depending on application and not on global user settings ?

[ppurka]

@psycepa: try yeahconsole-0.3.4, it has inbuilt support for urxvt, and also multiple yeahconsoles (of course you have to assign a different keybinding to each).

[psycepa]

@psycepa: try yeahconsole-0.3.4, it has inbuilt support for urxvt, and also multiple yeahconsoles (of course you have to assign a different keybinding to each).

thx for your advice
i have installed version from http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=83617 and now it works like a charm, even yahcosole -h shows what can be done with it
and now i have pixmap as a background in my yeahconsole
tilda! go away!

[|cub|]

just saw this thread:)
/me uses taviso's AutoHide Console in fvwm.
Same thing and no need to install something new