Termite - Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty

That's about it here is an expample screenshot I don't have this issue on urxvt but i prefer termite please fix this :/ also the termite-ranger-fix from AUR didn't solved the issue

Has anyone managed to get this working? There are quite a few vtes in there, but no mention of one bigger than 0.34.

I tried vte-common but that didn't seem to cut it.

When opening Vim within Termite, I get the following error:

Cannot execute shell %s

syntastic: error: your shell %s doesn't use traditional UNIX syntax for redirections
Press ENTER or type command to continue

Which is caused by Scrooloose's Syntastic plugin for Vim.

This only occurs within Termite—no other terminal has this problem, and as such, I am finding little in the way of solving this on my own.

First of all holly crap termite is amazing..how the hell did i not hear about this before is mind bending..but i digress :)

would it be possible to have the option to get custom keybinds? some of the defaults conflict with other cool apps i use (dunst etc)

thx alot

Z

This implements perfect forwarding of command line arguments as requested in #308 with the solution suggested by you in #310.

Note that it does use G_OPTION_REMAINING rather than relying on the remaining argv. The reason is simplicity: g_option_context_parse does not consistently strip the -- from argv which would require additional post-processing:

A '--' option is stripped from argv unless there are unparsed options before and after it, or some of the options after it start with '-'.

The patch is mostly adopted from #310 - with one notable exception: use G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY instead of G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY to prevent decoding and enable perfect forwarding:

On UNIX systems, the argv that is passed to main() has no particular encoding, even to the extent that different parts of it may have different encodings. In general, normal arguments and flags will be in the current locale and filenames should be considered to be opaque byte strings. Proper use of G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME vs G_OPTION_ARG_STRING is therefore important.

(Feel free to cherry-pick any commit even if not accepting the rest)

Best, Thomas

I've tried various ways to select the font style for Termite. There does not seem to be an option to set font styles, if there is I have yet to find it anywhere online or in the man page for Termite. For example, I love using the Source Code Pro for Powerline font, but I want to set it to medium because it makes it a bit easier to read for me.

Since Termite uses fontconfig to set fonts, it would seem to be simple to add if that ability isn't hidden away somewhere, I think.

Would it be possible to detect if someone has quoted a url in parentheses such that the protocol beings with (. I.e. (http://foo.bar/(baz))

Then only match the inner url, ignoring the first leading and trailing parenthesis?

Although this may have issues when they quote the beginning and the url has a valid parenthesis at the end. (http://wikipedia.org/foobar(baz)

With commit 7612e90, images can no longer be displayed in terminal. Image preview isn't supposed to work with transparency, but even with transparency disabled (1 for the alpha channel) it doesn't work.

I noticed that it seemed not all possible font sizes were accessible with the current scaling steps.

I decided to remove the scaling factor completely and let font resizing change the actual pango font size in memory.

Testing this (admittedly with only one font), certain previously inaccessible font widths were now possible. All the scaling information can now also be axed.

When running ncurses things in termite, I am able to induce a crash.

1. open some ncurses thing; e.g. less FILE, weechat, mutt, etc.
2. Change font size: C-S-SPC +/-
3. ESC ESC

For whatever reason, adding -g to CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS does not endow termite with debug symbols.

Core was generated by `termite'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0  0x00007fa8e12c4967 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt 
#0  0x00007fa8e12c4967 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007fa8e12c5d3a in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007fa8e20e9965 in g_assertion_message () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00007fa8e20e99fa in g_assertion_message_expr () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007fa8e37553a3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvte-2.91.so.0
#5  0x00007fa8e375d1c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libvte-2.91.so.0
#6  0x0000001100000000 in ?? ()
#7  0x0000000080000001 in ?? ()
#8  0x0000000000f65d10 in ?? ()
#9  0x00000000000016eb in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Comparing RXVT-Unicode and Termite, there is a spacing at the bottom of Termite. Like this:

Termite:

RXVT-Unicode:

How do I remove this spacing, or is it "hardcoded"? Why is it there?

Hey there :] as someone still using termite today, thank you for your hard work.

Please note, that there is actually still a use case for VTE-based terminals: Many laptops popular with the libreboot crowd are based on the GM45 chipset with the GMA4500 iGPU (Thinkpad x200, T400, T500...), which does not support alacritty's requirement of OpenGL 3.3. (Though there is an alacritty branch which addresses this....) Especially for Wayland users, VTE based terminals always just worked.

But moving on is also part of software I guess, so many thanks for the years of excellent support.