cool old term This retro styled Terminal Emulator could be the coolest weve seen yet!
Weve seen Terminal Emulators of all sizes and shapes for Linux, but nothing like this yet. cool-old-term is one gorgeous looking Terminal emulator.
How to install cool-old-term Terminal Emulator in Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17?
- Developed by Swordfishs Labs, cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.
- Uses the Konsole engine which guarantees a trouble-free experience. Heres what you need to do install and use cool-old-term in Ubuntu 14.04.
- Copy-paste the following command into Terminal.
sudo apt-get install git build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-controls-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qtdeclarative5-dialogs-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
- All the important dependencies are now installed. Compile and install cool-old-term in Ubuntu 14.04 by using the following commands.
git clone https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term.git
cd cool-old-term
cd konsole-qml-plugin
qmake && make && make install
cd ..
./cool-old-term
- Execute the commands one by one. The final command will launch the cool-old-term for you. Heres a few more screenshots. Let us know how well it worked for you.
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