Tilda - A drop down terminal for Linux

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kungfooguru · Post by **kungfooguru** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:51 am

Should have been released a lot earlier but I have been very busy with school and work.

You can now turn off bold text in the terminal

* Dynamic Tab Titles
* Many, many many other preferences added (i.e. allowing bold text, any color for foreground/background, more scrolling options, more compatibility options and so on...)
* Bug fix for Window Maker
* Bug fix for new tab grabbing focus
* Possible bug fix for Tilda grabbing focus
* Misc bug fixes

Hopefully I will have .09.1 out in the next few weeks. I have fall break next week so that should give me some time to mess around with it.

Get it here.

Tristan

Devport · Post by **Devport** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:11 pm

Thanks man. Great work.

Now tilda is really useable. On opening Tilda by hotkey one can type immediatly due to the focus bugfix. And you probably know that I love the new title replacement options which are now compatible with gnome-terminal - like all option in tilda are now.

But I hope that you did not forget about the 100% cpu usage when tilda is started minimized - its still there ( and especially critical for any powersaving cpu like in notebooks or amd cpus ) and prevents one from starting it automatically with gnome.

kungfooguru · Post by **kungfooguru** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:36 pm

I did forget at first about the 100% CPU usage, hehe, sorry, luckly I was reminded on gnomefiles.org.

It is fixed in .09.1 today since I thought it was very important to get out. Also there is a small bug in a tab taking another tabs title which is fixed. .09.1 should have been .09 but I screwed up. So i suggest go and get .09.1 and then everything should def. work

Tilda .09.1

Tristan

MmmmJoel · Post by **MmmmJoel** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:51 pm

What's the key sequence for a new tab? Is there none? Also, I can't find a sequence to move between tabs.

Could you explain what "Scroll on output" and "Scroll on keystroke" mean?

Also, it'd be great to support true transparency on Xfce using Xfce's compositor, but beggars can't be choosers. :)

kungfooguru · Post by **kungfooguru** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:27 am

Sorry no key sequences for those actions yet. I didn't think about switching tabs with a key stroke so I will easily add that, i had ctrl-t add tabs but it acted strange and thus removed it. Not sure what I was doing wrong and don't have much time to develop on Tilda. Should be in for .09.2 which I hope to able to work on over fall break next week.

Scroll on output -- If you have say 'emerge blah' running and scroll up a bit itll shoot back down to the bottom of the terminal when new output is sent to the screen, say output from 'make' during the emerge.

Scroll on keystroke -- With this on if you scroll up in the console and then press a key the terminal will shoot back down to the bottom where the key would be displayed.

I'll look into adding true transparency for Xfce, thanks for the suggestion.

Tristan

babo · Post by **babo** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:56 pm

hello, I just emerged tilda 0.09 on amd64 and I like it very much. It's allready my main terminal.

kungfooguru · Post by **kungfooguru** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:00 pm

Tilda .09.1 is in portage!!! It took a while but was worth it.

So start emerging

Thanks to everyone who helped,
Tristan

bladus · Post by **bladus** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:49 pm

how about an ~amd64 ?

kungfooguru · Post by **kungfooguru** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:56 am

yeah, it should be ~ppc ~x86 and ~amd64, maybe another?

I'll talk to the maintainer

Tristan

djpharoah · Post by **djpharoah** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:20 pm

great program..

love the looks on my friends faces when i drop it down

Lucractius · Post by **Lucractius** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:48 am

~x86, ~ppc, ~amd64 and hard masked for testing on Sparc, yes thats right

im back

but my sparc box isnt

, it had an unfortnate ecounter with a non computer person, and that resulted in its din9 keyborad being ramed in a mini-din6 (ps2 for the normal folk) port when they were searching for a keyboard to use... most unfortunate, and it stoped working

i plan on reviving it in headless mode sooner or later and will resume testing tilda ( via remote login ) on sparc then

meanwhile its excelent to see it in portage and congrats!

it makes my switch to gentoo as my main platform on my x86 box all the more sweet

LightEater · Post by **LightEater** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:17 pm

Hi, so far i've been using kuake as my drop-down term but since it's got a little problem in kde 3.5 i thought ill try tilda. It's come a long way since i last installed it, but there are some minor things that are bugging me:
- Tilda doesnt grab focus when its hotkey is pressed
- Tilda doesnt auto hide when it loses focus (this is sometimes good, but an option to configure such a feature would be most welcome imho)
- When the command line is empty and you keep backspace pressed tilda blinks with its foreground and background colors

Any hope to look into these?

kungfooguru · Post by **kungfooguru** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:31 pm

Tilda should work to grab focus now, I haven't had any troubles and most people who were said it works now. Are you running .09.1? What WM are you using?

I'll hopefully add that auto hide option in for the next release, as well as work on the blinking problem. Also, the next release will have shortcut keys for working with the tabs.

I've been busy with school and work for the past couple months, but luckly the holidays are comng up so look for a new release in december or january.

Thanks for the comments,
Tristan

seren · Post by **seren** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:35 pm

tried it out got it configured and running but i couldn't get it to hide =/ pressind the tilda did nothing.

Negated Void · Post by **Negated Void** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:00 pm

The default bind is "F1" to do that.

oggialli · Post by **oggialli** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:25 pm

I have an feature request.

Tilda should have an utility to allow to open/close a running instance from the command line. I just noticed I have a useless "Access IBM" button on laptop that sends out ACPI Button events rather than X scancodes - now if I could tap the button with acpid to run the CLI open/close command, both tilda and the key would be way more useful.

I'd implement it using a socket bound to loopback which the main tilda app would run and then the tildaopenclose app would connect, causing tilda to open/close based on it's current state.

Another (simpler, too) possibility is tapping a signal handler for SIGUSR1 or alike to open/close the tray, then it would just be a matter of killall -USR1 tilda

If you wish I could perhaps make a patch but these are rather trivial and you know your code best so I'll leave up to you to decide (and implement) on this

Also, isn't there the cool sliding feature ?

oggialli · Post by **oggialli** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:36 pm

Uh, seems like "animated pulldown" was on the future plans list. Is there any work underway regarding it or should I start on it . .. getting hugely interested in this project, keep up the good work!

Edit: Umm... already started... patch for animation should be somewhere in a few hours I think.

oggialli · Post by **oggialli** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:41 pm

Okay guys, sliding ready. I'll hack through the other future plans (at least the "coming from any direction" one) and then put up a composite patch. Guess I'll have to add configurability for the features I add too.

Edit: Bah, can't be troubled by implementing the other things now so here's sliding complete with the configuration. Patches at least against tilda-0.09.1.

http://paivola.fi/~oggialli/tilda-0.09. ... ldown.diff

oggialli · Post by **oggialli** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:42 pm

Okay now I couldn't resist doing the trivial patch to make tilda pull it up on SIGUSR1. Now using my "Access IBM" for good!

http://ranssi.paivola.net/~oggialli/til ... -usr1.diff

freke · Post by **freke** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:53 pm

Just stumbled across Tilda and love it, but..... (there's always a but isn't there?)

I'm occasionally using some local-characters in my terminal ('æ', 'ø' and 'å'), they work fine in my aterm-terminal, but tilda outputs nothing when using those and some error is shown in the terminal from which I tried to run tilda for testing.

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** (tilda:2777): WARNING **: Error (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character) converting data for child, dropping.

Fix this and tilda will be my main working ground

oggialli · Post by **oggialli** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:25 pm

For me öäå (finnish) work just fine. Are you sure you have LC_CTYPE set correctly (for me fi_FI)? Try setting it to what it's supposed to be for you.

freke · Post by **freke** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:55 am

Will give it a checkup, never wondered about it as it've always worked for me out of the box when I was working in aterm and nano inside my fluxbox.

Thx for the suggestion, will try when I get back to my gentoo-box.

beissemj · Post by **beissemj** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:28 pm

Tilda rocks man. As soon as I can make/switch tabs with the keyboard it'll be my main terminal. Good work.

seiichiro0185 · Post by **seiichiro0185** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:04 pm

Yeah, Thanks for this great software! Using it as my main Terminal ATM. Only missing function for me (as said by others before): Tab handling with keyboard-shortcuts. Keep up the good work!

oggialli · Post by **oggialli** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:46 am

I can take a look tomorrow (now its 3AM, played guitar whole night so . . .) at the tab bindings. Wait for the patch

Tilda - A drop down terminal for Linux

Tilda 0.09

100% CPU fixed now

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