Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator.
It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including:
- Semantic text menus
- Smart command completion
- GUI terminal controls
For more information, screenshots and a demonstration video, visit http://finalterm.org.
Final Term is written in Vala and built on top of GTK+ 3, Clutter and Mx. It requires the development files for the following software packages:
- Gee
- GTK+ 3
- Clutter >= 1.12
- Clutter-Gtk
- Mx
- keybinder-3.0
- libnotify Optional, for desktop notifications support
- libunity Optional, for Unity launcher integration (progress bars)
To install Final Term, execute these shell commands:
git clone https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm.git
cd finalterm/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
Note: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson has provided an SRPM for Final Term here (and one for keybinder here).
The following concrete steps have been tested and work to get Final Term installed and running on a vanilla Fedora 18 system:
sudo yum install git cmake vala libgee-devel gnome-common gtk-doc gtk3-devel libmx-devel clutter-gtk-devel libnotify-devel
Note that the Fedora repositories only contain the package "keybinder", which is linked against GTK+ 2.
git clone https://github.com/engla/keybinder.git
cd keybinder/
git checkout keybinder-3.0
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
git clone https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm.git
cd finalterm/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
The keybinder library is installed in /usr/local/lib/ rather than /usr/lib/. On many systems, pkg-config will not by default search for packages there and this error is the annoying result.
To fix it, add /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ to your pkg-config search path:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
The following concrete steps have been tested and work to get Final Term installed and running on a vanilla Ubuntu 12.10 ("Quantal Quetzal") or 13.04 ("Raring Ringtail") system:
This is necessary because Ubuntu does not provide an up-to-date version of Vala in its default repositories.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team
sudo apt-get install git cmake valac-0.18 libgee-0.8 libmx-dev libclutter-gtk-1.0-dev keybinder-3.0-dev libnotify-dev libunity-dev
git clone https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm.git
cd finalterm/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
You're in luck, my friend: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/finalterm-git/
Final Term owes much of its existence to the awesomeness of Vala and its documentation, Clutter and Mx, as well as to those projects authors' generous decision to release their amazing work as open source software.
Much of the knowledge about terminal emulation required to build Final Term was gained from the xterm specification and the VT100 User Guide, as well as from the study of existing terminal emulators such as st and Terminator.
Final Term's color schemes are generated using the wonderful Base16 Builder by Chris Kempson.
Final Term's application icon is a modified version of the terminal icon from the Faenza icon theme by Matthieu James.
Copyright © 2013 Philipp Emanuel Weidmann (pew@worldwidemann.com)
Final Term is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Final Term is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Final Term. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.