Swordfish90 / cool-retro-term
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
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Description
cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.
It uses the QML port of qtermwidget (Konsole): https://github.com/Swordfish90/qmltermwidget.
This terminal emulator works under Linux and macOS and requires Qt6.
Settings such as colors, fonts, and effects can be accessed via context menu.
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Install
If you want to get a hold of the latest version, just go to the Releases page and grab the latest AppImage (Linux) or dmg (macOS).
Alternatively, most distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch already package cool-retro-term in their official repositories.
Building
Check out the wiki and follow the instructions on how to build it on Linux and macOS.