On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 17:13:50 +0100 Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de> wrote:
> In case you become interested in a replacement with a similar > feature set, yet still small-ish footprint and reasonable list > of dependencies: I can recommend sakura! I've been using it for > years now Irrwahn, thanks for turning me on to Sakura. I'll be using it a lot in the future. Sakura is a great terminal emulator with abyssmal documentation. None of its features or operations are discoverable until you learn that its configuration is contained in ~/.config/sakura/sakura.conf, and even then you must figure out by trial and error, by reading the source, or by verbal history passed from father to son, that every hotkey mentioned must be used in conjunction with the Shift+Ctrl combination. Next step is to look inside sakura.c, at the #define statements, particularly the ones that /DEFAULT_.*_ACCELERATOR/. Compare those defaults the accelerator declarations in sakura.conf as it ships from the factory, and you find that the accelerators are the Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Windows key combos that are joined to the letter in the corresponding letter key, identified bitwise: Accel ModKey 1 Shift 2 Caplocks (warning: Obvious side effects) 4 Ctrl 8 Alt 64 WindowsKey Naturally, the preceding can be or'ed to produce multiple key accelerators. Once armed with these secret handshakes, Sakura's capabilities quickly reveal themselves: * You can define several foreground/background/cursor color combos, each with its own hotkey. These combos can be used from the command prompt with the --colorset option. For people like me who use different color combos to warn of root terminals or terminals ssh'ed to other computers, this is spectacular. * You can change the font within sakura.conf. * You can change the font size on the fly with a hotkey. * You can handle tabs with hotkeys * You can toggle existence of schrollbars with a hotkey. Sakura's an excellent terminal emulator with terrible documentation, but armed with this email you can immediately use it productively. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
